.OPTIONS for a Better World

I'm on a wild ride.  About a month ago I started having significant back pain that has increasingly (and painfully) affected standi...

I am on the first day of  a five day retreat at the Kripalu Retreat Center in Western Massachusetts. JB and I arrived last night and for ...

It's been so long since I've posted here I had to create a new password. I still can't figure out how to post photos and I...

It's been a wild month. Winter has given way to Spring and that's a wonderful thing. I'm a happy gardener and I like nothing...

How happy I am to be back at my blog! For the last few months I've been unable to include photos and that's very much cramped m...

I don't have pictures. But I can tell you that I am sitting on a couch in a rented vacation apartment watching seagulls fly over the ba...

"Write your sorrows in sand and your gratitude in granite" This comes from a wise and far away blogging friend, who sometimes w...

This time of year, I miss the way blogging use to be. Before Facebook, I and about 30 or 40 connected folks would blog weekly, often...

There was never a time Those last seven years When your smile was lessened  By any fear. You moved to a place Far away fro...

It appears that I am writing again, regularly, and happily. I've had a reason to look back at my words over the last few years and ...

this is herring cove in Provincetown at sunset. I can view a similar scene just about every night and I am reassured of holiness. I ...

It could not be a more beautiful Autumn here. I am writing every day, benefiting from the ocean air and sunsets, and planning for a hug...

I look at this scene almost daily.  It is a view from my side yard, where JB and I sit, a block from the bay, and where I imagine what ...

No new photos, no extra wisdom, just a feeling that it's time I checked in here and confirmed that I am finally healthier and more grat...

Two days before the start of chemotherapy, a very fancy doctor with cold eyes informed us that the pathologists no longer agreed. He said t...

I wrote this poem to my dog Rosie soon after she died. That was well more than ten years ago and I came across it again tonight. I'm sti...

Here I am once again lamenting with good reason. A few weeks ago my beloved daughter Jess had a routine procedure and routine labs followin...

Since the beginning of my blog in 2008 this is the longest I've gone without posting. There is also a change in content b...

Be warned: I've written this mostly for myself. I'm pondering joy, how to let it come, how to chase it down, how to hold it tight...