.OPTIONS for a Better World

A year ago, during my family's Christmas Yankee Swap, I ended up with a book that provided a prompt a day, for a full year.  I  decided ...

 I love Christmas. JB and I gift plenty of special cards, presents or cookies or dinners at our table. For a reason I don't understand, ...

  This is kind of a sad story. It's about blogging. My blog made its debut in 2006. At the time I had just begun my first writing group,...

 My good friends gifted JB and me a pontoon day at sea, hugging Provincetown's incredible bay, enhanced by a bright blue sky, camarons s...

 I live in a place that I'm always glad to return to. The summer crowds and our summer company will soon fall into Autumn. Quieter, more...

 This is personal and it gives me great joy.  This is JB and our 15 year old grandson, Drew, walking on our street in Provincetown, on day 2...

JB and I have a tradition of taking our grandkids and nieces and nephews anywhere they want in the USA when they turn 16. We were a year lat...

I'm asked a lot what it's like to live in Provincetown.  This is a coastal town on at the end of a peninsula, at the very tip of Cap...

 Every Christmas, my family has a fabulous Yankee Swap--all of us, four kids and four adults, with a pile of wrapped presents to chose from,...

We didn't expect our new light fixture to cast a magical shadow on the ceiling. In the dark of night, it feels like Disneyland.  JB and ...

  Well! Here I am on almost Bunny Day, which kj said I shouldn’t say, because she said Easter is about something very serious, and religious...

 I'm still doodling. This is my view from the couch. For some reason, my favorite views are through windows or doorways or secret passag...

 This winter I've been editing three books, thinking about another, and dabbling in drawing. Since it's just about the end of Februa...

 I've breezed through summer, and fall, and Christmas, punctuated by the challenging homecare and sad death of my 106 year old Godmother...

 I’m definitely not an average fan. I ‘discovered’ Taylor Swift and her music not even a year ago, and besides that, I’m seventy-five. You w...

  Lately I’ve been thinking about joy. I chose this card to enclose in our Christmas cards last year, because the unsettled times seemed to ...

OMG I finally have a new Apple MacAir and already my inferior computer skills have become so much easier. This includes being able to post p...