.OPTIONS for a Better World

The moment I read this I understood the change that's taken place and is shaping me again. I've always been an optimist but in ...

I'll start with the cookies. Every year JB and I make and decorate these sugar cookies and every year my health-conscious daughter ...

I'm off to Disneyworld and breakfasts with Mickey Mouse and a dozen of my family. Things are much improved here. It is my great hope ...

Trust me: here is the BEST sugar cookie recipe in the entire world, guaranteed. You will probably thank me! If you make them, I'd lo...

"Hello…it's Me." Here's my report from a place of maybe not thriving, but thankfully surviving. Normally I'...

 It's about time to stop being cryptic. I've been cautious to admit that my JB is sick, that despite enough doctors and tests to fi...

It's not easy but I'm going to keep believing that human kindness and civility will balance things out. What a crazy scary worl...

Hello from Provincetown! We are 95% moved in and the autumn seascape could not be more beautiful. I am still hibernating but I know r...

I wrote this a while back and I'm sharing now because it's time I've reclaimed my writing self on my blog. I got the idea for t...

Here's a first world problem: I'm here, this very place is barely a block away from where I sit now, I work very part-time in ...

Well, this is not entirely true. I love fancy meals and I'll spend my last dime on books and anything for the garden. But the last ...