Our home fires are both necessary and symbolic. Religious mythology include kitchen hearths and their keepers because the hearth is the place where life and family begins and…
I once read that you won’t know if you have succeeded if you don’t have a picture of what success looks like. I found that profound and daunting…
Summer 2018 is rolling out in a leisurely fashion. It started out at a run when we went straight to the beach the weekend after school let out.…
I am on a journey to understand myself. This involves both understanding who I thought I was based on the information I gathered as a child, and who…
Without a sense of belonging and knowing our own value in the world, we see no one there for us. We do not see ourselves within a community…
I’m walking into the gym, anticipating the discomfort of exercising and the whine of my joints as muscles. And then I think about how it is what it…
With a heavy sad heart, I convey the news that last night, Mark’s Dad passed away while in hospice care. He was released from his tired body and…
I discovered from my Mom recently that when she was a child, she used to spend celebratory meals like Thanksgiving and Sunday Suppers, with her Aunt’s family. They…
Before Mark and I moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, we lived in the quaint neighborhood of Hampden in Baltimore City. The area was built around a…
The last week ( and a half) of June, found us doing stuff. We visited with friends and their dogs. Took a closer look at critters with shells.…