Monthly Archives: April 2008


I Apologize to Myself

I apologize to myself: for the opportunities I’ve squandered along the way, for challenges I avoided, for not doggedly pursuing […]



There has to be life

I was planning to write on something else today – Oprah envy and rumors – but something else keeps popping […]





I was away but now I’m back

I have just returned from a very pleasurable five-day visit to California. (Did you miss me?) We visited my husband’s […]



Pleasurable and free

There are a lot of things that are pleasurable and free but today I’m talking about the pleasure of taking […]


All-American

“He lives in an ordinary, all-American sort of place…” begins an article by David Mehegan in the Boston Globe on April […]


Don’t say no to yourself

So many of us limit ourselves. It is easy to do. It is difficult to counter the negative messages that […]




Bor-ing, Bles-sing

There have been times in my life when nothing much was going on except the routine things of life. Get […]


Every One a Miracle

Every single human being is a miracle of conception and construction (and, for now at least, a miracle of uniqueness). […]



A touch, a touch, a touch

I have observed that when dogs and cats see other dogs and cats, they rub against each other and touch. As […]