.OPTIONS for a Better World

I have a dilemma.  I am forty pages into writing a new book. Two of the characters especially--Claudia who dresses in various disgui...

1. Friends: I think this is corny but I keep going back to read it because there is something pretty great about having a friend like t...

I used to do Thursday 13 just about every week and I've made up a reason to do it this week. My reason is simple--here's what I'...

Anne and I had a friendship, then for a time we didn’t, then, thankfully, certainly, we did again, and we kept it that way.  We met...

Am I old? I am overweight and my back hurts. I have a titanium knee and I've lost stamina. But am I old? My friends are...

It began when Jessica was three. She's spent every Christmas Eve and Easter Day with her father.  For the first time, this morni...

JB and I are having our fill of fun decorating our Provincetown house. We bought this wooden screen for cheaps and took a chance it woul...

I've known about Ulingan for several years. To live there is to live in squalor and poverty with pretty much no way out.   There is...

1. No Spring yet. No sun, no warmth, no seedlings breaking through a very wet ground. But one of these days it will be 60 degrees here ...

Here's a short story of mine,  if you're so inclined,  about one of my favorite subjects.  Love kj It was unusual to he...

This is my lickity split version of Crayon Canyon, unfinished and made possible by a coloring session with 7 year old Mr. Ryan. Every...

"There must be those among whom we can sit and weep and still be considered warriors." Adrienne Rich WARNING: a ser...

"Hello Gram!" "Gram, hello!" And with that, at 7 am on Sunday morning, I know Logan is standing in the pack...

My first week with a clean slate did not end well. I made it one blissful day before JB got sick (again) and worries about her health...