I took Sullivan and Bridgette to Ingrid's Bakery last night for St. Patrick's Day cookies, cream cheese hamantaschens and Turkish macaroons. I've been going to Ingrid's since I was 19. That was back during the late 1980s when the placed was owned and operated by the...
My son is the happiest person I know. That's why it startled me the other day when he leaned his head on my arm and said, "Every day is the same." Such raw wisdom deserves more than platitudes. I drew him to me and said, "It can all be so disappointing." I...
1990s Bride This picture of me - a 1990s bride -- was taken 23 years ago today. My father performed the wedding ceremony. March 9 will always be a special day to me even though the marriage ended in 1998. I have never posted a picture from my first wedding. It's...
And those who need adventure, they can sail the seven seas And those who search for treasure, they must live on grander dreams --From Mary Chapin Carpenter and The End of My Pirate Days Some days around 3 p.m., a faint tinge of sadness comes over me. I leave my office...
"...The Achumawi greeted each other at the wintering ground; “Is kaadzi ! Is kaakaadzi!” “Man, you are living! Man, you are living!” (From Mike Mahon, Poet) "Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The...