Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
No Place like Home?
Variations on a theme sparked by wildfires My daughter lives in Los Angeles. She is seven months pregnant. When fire flared up in the Hollywood Hills, she and her husband took the precautionary…
Anything Is Possible
Or Is it? Back in 2013 Diana Nyad accomplished something no other long-distance swimmer had even tried. She swam from Cuba to the U.S, without a shark cage. It was her fifth attempt…
A Vote Is a Kind of Prayer
Is America’s melting pot in the throes of a meltdown? November 6, 2024 —Up at 6:30, earlier than usual for me. I needed to pick up where I left off with last night’s…
Need a Good Cry? How about some tear-water tea?
The other day I had a yearning, very specific in its musical nature. I wanted/needed to hear “Dance Me to the End of Love,” à la Leonard Cohen when he first recorded it….
Autumn Light
It’s late August, the time when leaves have begun to lose their vibrancy. Some are turning, hints of red and yellow. The shift in daylight, ever so subtle since the summer solstice, renders…
One Shoe, Two Shoes, Red Shoes, Blue Shoes
Every so often I’m lured into watching a movie for no other reason than its catchy title. In the 2022 film, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, the Cinderella trope is turned on its…
