Mistakes
Welcome to today’s blog: mistakes. We’ve all made them, suffered through them, regretted them, and obsessed over them. And, I trust, learned from them, even laughed at them. I made another one last week when this post launched … Read More
Let’s Go Shopping
Good news Tuesday night on the economic front. The stock market is back to its pre-nose-dive level of exactly four years ago this month. Housing prices are heading back up, unemployment is down, and the meteor missed us again. … Read More
First Friday Friend: A Traveler’s Library
Can it be? Another First Friday is upon us. Where has the time gone? When I was young my grandmother often said, “Time goes faster when you get older.” I thought she was making it up — just as … Read More
Love Is Like A Magic Penny
One of these does not belong. Which one? Thirty-seven years ago when I was pregnant with my second child, I was worried. I loved my then three year old with such an intensity, how could I possibly spread … Read More
First Friday Friend/Idioms
How important punctuation is. You’ve seen, I’m sure, the “Let’s Eat Gramma.” vs. “Let’s eat, Gramma.” buzz on Facebook. I’m sure Gramma would agree, commas are important. So are capitals. Last week I began a new feature I called … Read More
Friday’s Friend: Ronny Edry
When I was in the non-profit, fund-raising world, we had a saying, “Every good idea has been stolen from someone else.” It was’t that we thought there were no original ideas. It was more that every creative, good idea … Read More
Weeding through the Clutter
I weeded through four years of my life one recent afternoon. Some folks might call it clutter. I called it memories. Or souvenirs. It took me three hours to get four years of photocopied journal articles (copied beneath that … Read More
Jumping Off High Dives
When I was sixteen I took a deep breath, closed my eyes, and jumped — off Olympic Park’s high dive — into twelve feet of water far below. I still have no idea why. I’d never jumped off a high … Read More