Christmas 2019
I’ll be out of the country for the next three weeks, visiting family and friends to the north of us, among other things, which I shall write about upon my return, mid January. In the meantime, I hope you’ll enjoy … Read More
Public Toilets: A New Look
[box] NOTE: The following post was written and scheduled before the devastating news of the brutal murder of my friend Lindsay de Feliz. Of the blog she wrote from the Dominican Republic, where she’d made her home for nearly twenty … Read More
Autumn Leaves: A memory
[box type=”info”] An update: Woody’s hand surgery went smoothly last Wednesday afternoon and the biopsy came back with the expected good news. His sutures come out on Friday and he’ll have full use of his hand in another week. More … Read More
Thoughts on Mortality: A guest post from my husband
Over the years I’ve mentioned my husband, Woody, from time to time. Today for the first time (and hopefully not the last), Woody talks to you directly. I think you’ll come away understanding how I could fall in love with … Read More
A New Look at Thanksgiving: the strange ritual we pull off each year
It really is a strange ritual we pull off each year. We mean well, with this Thanksgiving of ours, but intention only carries so far. The Thanksgiving myth, you know, is a fiction. A nice fiction, a Norman Rockwell fiction, … Read More
LEAPFROG is here!
It’s been a long gestation, longer than you’d expect for such a small book. But it’s finally here — sort of — and you, my readers, were a big part of it (you’re in the Acknowledgments). I’m excited to announce … Read More
Get Real: A look at ageism
This is not a DST story. It is a turn back time story though. Sort of. A story came to my attention last week that I just couldn’t ignore. Along the lines of the breastfed six-year old post I did … Read More
Fake News Redux
Or should that be Faux News Redoe? It’s late; I’m trying to be cute. My apologies. Today I’m revisiting the post I did two weeks ago. Here it is again if you missed it: A Look At Fake News This … Read More
A New Look at Halloween: who loves it and why?
It’s Halloween, the time to celebrate death. ghosts, goblins, vampires, and zombies. It’s the time you get to be someone or something else. For me, it’s the holiday when costumed strangers show up uninvited and demand some form of extortion … Read More