
Life
When my friend, Tina, returned from Hong Kong, she brought me a gold drawstring bag and a tin full of candies. The bag is small and made from fabric worthy of a royal robe, but the tin is uninteresting and void of color. The candies are small and hard and wrapped in a waxy paper
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been taking self-quarantine seriously: I get together with friends on Zoom, have my
Dear Friends, I have often thought about writing you but after months of self-imposed Covid lockdown, followed by George Floyd’s
Other than a masked visit to Whole Foods during senior hour and the drive through at the pharmacy, my post
Somehow all the trips I took last year, the wonderful people I met and the pretty pink tulle skirt and
The other night I watched the classic 1959, film, The Diary of Anne Frank, the true story of seven people
Laura Munson’s new book, Willa’s Grove, is much more than a novel. It’s a map, a template with the potential
Not long ago I watched the film Rumor Has It with Kevin Costner and Jennifer Aniston. Aniston’s character was lamenting
Dear Friends, This will be my last regular blog post for a while because I’m stepping away to work on
I was thinking about the 1975 song by Eric Carmen, “All By Myself,” where the refrain (over and over and
My friend, Pat, uses the term “elderly” when referring to the current state of our high school graduating class. It
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Incase the universe thought it might have slipped my mind that 15 years ago
Over two hundred of Anthony Bourdain’s most cherished belongings are being sold this month—October 9-30, 2019—in an online auction that’s
Serena Crawford is one of my favorite people because her curiosity and interests knows no bounds. I could tell you
I’ve been saying this a lot lately: “If you can’t see it, you can’t fix it.” Sometimes I get frustrated,
This week Jessi Combs, the “fastest woman on four wheels,” car fabricator and TV host of Mythbusters, died in what’s
Brenda recently asked if we still prepare meals. Many readers who left comments said they still enjoyed cooking; a few
“When people ask me why I seem so happy and find it so easy to laugh, I tell them my