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Musings about life

When I woke up this morning, a childhood ditty came to my mind. It was: The boys like the baconThe […]

On my recent trip to visit my daughter and granddaughter in Charlotte, I got to thinking about bedrooms, space and […]

When ends don’t meet, we have to figure out how to squeeze them together. I watched my mother do this […]

If you don’t accept a person just as they are you don’t really love them. That’s a strong statement but […]

There are lots of things that make me go hmmmmm. Here are two recent ones.Headline (Boston Globe, Jan. 20, 2008) […]

Blessed are the days when something you have been working toward is achieved. Sometimes the stars align and you are […]

I’m counting sheep ’cause I can’t sleep.Instead of doing my nightly rituals that help me relax – I did what I […]

Langston Hughes wrote a wonderful series of poems around dreams. One of the poems in the series has last lines […]

Going slow to go fast is a facilitation technique. It means to take time with the introductions, the ground rules, […]

How easy it is to forget that in your youngish days you have had moments (or more) of being a scumboogah, scalawag, […]

Have you ever found yourself unexpectedly in an airport or train station and thought to yourself – I could just […]

TJ Maxx and Mar-shall’s save my life on a regular basis. I know that no matter how tight my wallet […]

I am blessed today to: have heat in frigid weather; a casserole made yesterday that tasted even better today; a […]

Some people, like my mother and step-father, have a standing New Year’s tradition. They check into a downtown hotel for […]

I wonder if the impatient tapping of fingers, angry chatter on cellphones, harumphs and other sighs, exasperated looks, pacing back and […]

I am mostly trying to be my best self these days, to think and walk on the more positive side […]

Have you ever noticed that when cats and dogs get near each other, they immediately sniff, touch and frolic? They […]

Y-1 – Why don’t we expect snow in Boston?Y-2 – Why do weathercasters whip themselves into a froth over any […]