2020, The Year that Was
In less than two weeks, I will be turning fifty-eight years old. Like my adult children have done this year, I will be celebrating my...
Take Care of Yourself
“So how are you taking care of yourself,” my friend asked me within a couple hours of my arrival. We’d talked about the season, the kids,...
Love & Valentine's Day
On this Valentine’s Day, I send this Valentine to my sons. I have no doubt there was a plan in bringing these two to me. When my family...
Hallelujah
The Canadian Singers Sing Hallelujah I was raised a Catholic….kind of lightly. By the time I came along, discipline (and belief) had...
Engage with our Dreams
“We are done with life when we cease to engage with our dreams.” Glenda Burgess, Author I find I cannot NOT create. Over the years, I’ve...
Memories for Thanksgiving
I think a wonderful exercise during this, our week of Thanksgiving, is to pause….remember, ponder, and be grateful for our most treasured...
Diving In - Running Away
If I think about giving advice or about the things I wish I’d known 100 years ago, I think “diving in” and “running away” are two...
"If you really want to know me...."
What follows is the finest piece of writing I’ve ever read. It’s in Christina Baker Kline’s Prologue to the novel A Piece of the World, a...
Common Sense
We were walking the East End Beach trail when my husband said he had been talking to a colleague last week at work. This colleague had...
I Am a Digger
“Mine, I’ve come to think, is to become whole. To integrate a lifetime of complexity, challenges, secrets, luck, privilege, the...