The Light and the Dark Rum
I love a great glass of red wine on a crisp autumn evening. Or the perfect Pimms Cup to celebrate the beginning of summer. It’s so easy to feel ever so elegant with a crisp gin and tonic shaken and served (with fresh lime juice) in a martini glass. And on those...
Uneven Surfaces
They care for you and then, later on, if you are lucky enough to have a Mother Who Grows Old, you return the favour. This is how it is beginning for me. My mother finally took her doctor’s advice and got a shiny new metal hip. This after years of “I’m fine!” but the...
Lean Back: Re-Thinking Leaning In
I am, what my mother once called, “high strung”. One of four children, I knew where I was going at an early age. Rather, I knew where I was NOT going. I was not following my Mother’s rough and rocky path. A stay at home mom forced to return to the workplace when her...
Living the Dream
Might have been the 50th birthday, might have been the minor health scare. Might have been the discovery of my 20 year old self, over there in the journals I pulled out of a long ago packed-and-forgotten box. Either way I have gone and done it. I have quit my job,...
A Bird in the House…
This morning I was out for breakfast with my beloved friend Frank. Actually I had spent the morning driving him to the eye doctor, as a follow up to his cataract surgery. I chide him to wear wrap around “terminator” sunglasses. He balks, believing the new eyewear will...
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Who do we become when we explore what it is to be more fully ourselves?
I started asking that question a few years ago, at the end of one career and the beginning of something else …read more
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