.OPTIONS for a Better World

Somehow I am at a point where it is very easy to spot love in plain sight and around corners. I have such dear people around me.  Lo...

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit,  for this,  that I have found it easier  to read the mystery  told in tears  and understood Thee better  i...

Blah to my last post. Too serious for the times. I've had a very good summer and I'm ready for a New England fall. I'm writing ...

Before I tell you my own story I hope you will consider sharing with me and others a time when someone has nudged your life in this w...

This summer: JB & I did three rounds of Artist Trading Cards with eight other women. Each of us had a theme--I did this one f...

It's a weighty decision whether to chin up to the violence and sadness in the world where buildings and people are blown up or t...

It meant a lot to me, this week's vacation in Provincetown with my family, and I hoped it would feel like a real vacation for each o...

I am stunned by the condition of the world. The bombing of innocent Gaza neighborhoods and the shooting of a plane with vacationers is o...

Today, July 19th, is my beloved daughter's birthday. I could not be prouder of her. To Jessica Take both eyes, both h...

Mark and I became friends in Erlangen Germany in the early 1970's. I was a counselor at the artillery base where he was station...

Hello and happy summer to those of us lucky enough to finally have warm days and verdant landscapes. This is the view from the public b...