How do we measure a year? A life? Talk of violence, hatred, fear, anger? Maybe. And, yet, other ways open more possibilities. I offer one here. At first it seemed too simple, too light. Now it seems profound and important. My mother died a year ago between Christmas and New Years. I’ve thought about her… Continue Reading
New Year’s Resolutions? Oh, my, not again. Every year. And every year they fail because we (or maybe I) resolve to do something in the future. In 2021, I will finally ..fill in the blank.. lose those last five pounds, I will…I will, I will. What if we resolve to do something that can happen right… Continue Reading
In my thirties, I recall saying, “Wait. What? I don’t get it. I should get it. When I was fourteen, one of my brothers died soon after birth. When I was twenty-one, my forty-one-year-old aunt died. People die. Grandparents die, but not my grandfather.” Pepere Lebel loved me as one of those people the experts… Continue Reading
To Persevere. To Celebrate. To Play. To Love. To Share. To Adventure. To Relax. These are some of the chapter titles in Grandkids as Gurus: Lessons for Grownups. which let us know what children can teach us. I’m excited to say that my third book, Grandkids as Gurus: Lessons for Grownups is now available at local bookstores, through… Continue Reading
“Once upon a time, when women were birds,there was the simple understanding thatto sing at dawn and to sing at duskwas to heal the world through joy.The birds still rememberwhat we have forgotten,that the world is meant to be celebrated.”Terry Tempest Williams When I read this, I thought, joy? Are you kidding, with a global… Continue Reading
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