.OPTIONS for a Better World

 Seattle  My friend Gordon's self portrait (do you see him?)  Robert Cardinal's Martha's Vineyard painting embellished b...

Is anybody else finding themselves uninspired to blog lately? It's summer here in New England and that means less computer and mor...

I should be in bed already. The last few days have been a whirlwind of problems: interior rain (never good); unexpected costs (money should ...

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I have learned something very important in my job as a psychotherapist.  I have learned it most from the children I treat, but it's ...

 The barn has been in their family for three generations. It's a barn that's in every sense still a barn. Our friends invite us...

Hello everyone. It's me, Emily. As you may know I am working hard to make money so I will always have jellybeans and gummy bears wh...

Last Wednesday I walked into a work setting I had walked out of ten years ago.  I had been a consultant to a department of twenty ...

When I write poems I often find myself writing about hard things that even though they're hard don't escape or negate hope. Thi...

First he purred, because he knows that purring relaxes JB and for that matter mostly all humans. But then he told JB that he was very up...