Rutabaga Reminder The waxy rock of a root vegetable stared at me from the red enamel bowl beyond the sink. I thought of Elaine and the episode of…
The trees aside the snowy winter fields have a tragic ethereal skeletal quality. Against gray skies, they’re lacy delicate beautiful. This beauty interrupted, the deer body lays twisted,…
Each love we experience adds to our repertoire of love skills. Different kinds of love create layers in our understanding of our worth. Each love is a gift.…
Around the world, many families are cared for by a stay at home caretaker or housewife or husband. I am one by both default and by choice. I…
Sitting in my hair stylist’s chair, deep into a conversation, she says she recently heard that we don’t see ourselves through our own eyes, we see ourselves as…
The kids and I were in the kitchen as we usually are most days at some point. Fiona was in the playpen and Eamon was doing whatever 8…
A friend of a friend phoned me recently. She is in charge of the fundraiser for the local Humane Society and would I be interested in painting a…
I am fairly certain you would agree that getting an actual letter in the mail from a friend is one of life’s little gleeful joyous gifts. It feels…
Like in earlier years, the week of Martin Luther King’s Birthday holiday nearly took me out of the game. I had prepared myself for the agonizing three-day weekend.…
I see the notice come up in my email that tells me so many people have repinned that pin again. The most popular Pinterest repinned pins usually tell…