The Ups and Downs of A Week

It Comes in ThreesEarly this week, I heard from a friend that his mother, who’d been suffering from cancer, had […]

Done!

Cuddah, Wuddah, Shuddah, Didn’t, Done! Translation: Could have, Would Have, Should Have, Did Not, Done!

I Apologize to Others

I wrote a piece a couple of days ago in which I apologized to myself. I would be remiss if […]

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 […]