Our lives are buffeted daily by external circumstances: rise and fall of gasoline prices and stock market, the shift in food prices,...

Early in 2021, I hit a low point in living. Fortunately, I knew enough to grab an opportunity for counseling and connected thru the local...

How are you coping with so many difficult challenges in the global world and your own families? How can anyone deal with all the unknowns...

The dogs in my apartment complex are mostly little happy lappy ones. A few bark … a lot. Most don’t. They have to be walked, fed, bathed,...

When I first learned about quilting, I was in a church basement in Portland, OR. An older Lakota woman showed me the fingering technique...

The ending of this year and the beginning of the next feel like a bridge between two whirlwinds of chaos. I’m leaving a space in time...

Under the influence of a weekly group with Masami and Chris Covey (www.masamicovey.com), I’ve attained a few personal and profound...

Last evening, I walked around my apartment complex, my usual after dinner circuit. Fire engines clanged to a new destination. Traffic...

Years ago, when in the middle of a divorce and balancing full-time work with raising two children under the age of four, I was given a...

Living in a one-hundred-unit retirement apartment complex since April 2020 is not exactly where I hoped I would settle. I had hoped to be...

I thought I understood what the act of listening meant. I am learning that it’s not a simple matter of keeping my ears aware of sounds....

I have been unsettled by the fact that life is still bouncing between one concern or another, that is until I decided to grab on. I went...

At any age of our lives, there are times when we can get stuck in the circle of regret. Pictures on Facebook or movies or statements of...

The word bulb is a strange word. Rolling its sound around, I feel my tongue expand in the back of my mouth while it also wants to tuck...

Change is never easy. And yet, many of us had to change our lives, adjust our attitudes, and push away from this strange year of 2020. My...

Several years ago, an illness dropped me toward depression. I stood at a window observing a grey day, full of huge raindrops splattering...

In the 75 years that I have been alive, I have faced down a lot of challenges while making my way through personal and global turmoil and...

An orange flavored sky cast its light through the venetian blinds and across my duvet. Stripes of color to decorate an understated...

Late on an August night, lightning rode the sky, breaking the summer heat and bringing a few sprinkles to my garden. At 4am, I basked...

The days are getting shorter, I can tell. The light begins to slant earlier each evening across my marble top coffee table. In the middle...