.OPTIONS for a Better World

In the midst of so much worry about children being taken from their parents at the Southern Border, yesterday I listened to Donald Tru...

I won’t bother to include links that show and tell in detail what Donald Trump and the United States Government is doing to the toddlers and...

Peas on Earth by Emily Rabbit some time ago In my lifetime I have never seen racism in the United States so blatant as it now presents ...

Back in the day, I used to post a "Thursday 13" every week, sometimes events, sometimes feelings, sometimes images, sometim...

How many friends do you have? How much time do you spend with your friends? Do most of your friends live nearby? Do your friends ...

We had no intention of getting a puppy. For one thing we're too old. For another, we're partial to older dogs who need and dese...

There's no escape from the mess that is current American democracy. This week the President of France addressed a joint session of ...

Going on 4 months later, I did not expect to still be wondering why I have groin and hip and leg pain that often hurts too much to wa...

My surgery was cancelled. There is a possibility that I have a second problem and it not the bone slippage may be the source of my limiting ...

Whirlwind times. On April 2nd I'll undergo a 4-5 hour surgery with the hope and goal that in the months that follow I'll be able...

Amanda asked about my current novel. I have finally finished it, the manuscript is being reviewed by two readers, and unless their feedb...

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...