a lesson from my mother we could all use now My mother was an old-school creative. Her creativity was at its best as a baker and in the clothes she sewed by hand. My brother and I would often tease her that if she had been born in today’s world she would have been one of those […]
Why I Don’t Want To Live In A Metaverse
My father was a technology nerd, long before there was such a thing. He got into the refrigeration and appliance business when that was all brand new and shiny. My mother said when they got married in 1951, they had no money, no furniture, but they did have a Crosley TV perched on a cardboard […]
What Happens When You Don’t Take Things For Granted
Last January I signed up for Weight Watchers. It was time to lose my pandemic weight. I committed myself, knowing that soon enough life as we once knew it would resume and I would have to put on a pair of pants that zipped. For the next several months I was disciplined. I ate healthy, […]
How Getting on a Plane for the First Time Since the Pandemic Helped Me to Gain Perspective
There was a time when this all came easily to me, but not this time. This time I had not been on a plane in almost two years, since before the pandemic began. This time not only was I out of practice, I was skeptical. Should I even risk it? What if I was on […]
What Happens When You Decide To Make 2021 The Year Of Being Kind To You
When I made my list of intentions for 2021 I decided to include being kind to me. Not that I was being unkind to myself in 2020 but 2020 was …well …. it was 2020. Between the pandemic, watching my mother decline and then passing in October, and having a toxic administration in Washington that […]
