.OPTIONS for a Better World

They look like just things and boxes, but it's a trick. Every book I pack for Saturday's yard sale, every china cup I let go of...

With his own hands and help from his stepbrother and father, my Father built this house in the early 1940's. I  just learned th...

Well here I am. I wish I had words to describe the last month or so. Maybe Whirlwind. Memories. Possessions. Houses. Photos. Exhaustion. Em...

It's been so long since I've posted. Life is changing.  Before the Fall, I'll be leaving the farms of Western Massa...

I can't say exactly why I'm chuckling writing a lot of this book, but here's an example that cracks me up between my main ch...

Places I like Things to do Books Songs Movies Food Family Subjects Favorites Yup. That about does it. (okay, of cours...

This is a little boy, Mr. Ryan, age 8, who put words and pictures to his life and is excited about all of it. His family, Cape Cod, spor...

Christine Macabee, mother of four and lover of all poems good and bad, is a bona fide John Denver. groupie.  I'll let her tell yo...

Part 1: Reflection  Do you think this statement is true? I do. For various reasons I've been thinking about my life past and fut...

1. Here it is: my house in the ever snowing winter of all winters in Massachusetts. For three weeks we have had one storm after another...

Not that I don't have reason to worry.  It's a fierce winter and pipes can freeze, roofs can leak, power can fail.  And...

Hello, it's been a while. It's a new year. I hope you are well xo. I've been busy settling into the person I've b...

My days are different. I still notice when it's 4:00 and I still have waves of emotion when I think about my Mother, but there is r...

from ryan Her black fabric pocketbook. With two handles and three compartments. I made sure there was always a few dollar bills a...

We said goodbye this week. I'll let these photos speak for themselves. I'll only add that my Mom died comfortably and in peace....

The last few days have been unreal. My Mother is dying. We have been given a private room at the Nursing Home and I have slept on a roll...

I took this photo about two weeks ago. This is my Mom. We didn't know then that her liver was failing; that today she would speak fo...

Part-time.  The word has meaning for me. First off, I'm consulting again doing what I last did 10 years ago. From home, on my...

Violent riots in a southern American town. There are reasons, not that I think destroying a downtown is the right thing to do.  But wha...