Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.
Ghost Music
Finding my way back to the music I loved when I learned to play piano I’m sitting at my office desk, scrolling through emails, fingers in a kind of dance — Delete Delete Delete….
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…
