How realism & adaptability ensure a better death

April 1, 2026
Is there ever a "good death"? I don't know. But I do know that there's such thing as a "better death." It was about four years ago. Pandemic days. We all sat on my patio while a geriatric housing professional made the case for deciding on next steps now. I wasn't yet 70, nor was one of our...

How realism & adaptability ensure a better death

April 1, 2026
Is there ever a "good death"? I don't know. But I do know that there's such thing as a "better death." It was about four years ago. Pandemic days. We all sat on...

Who am I? I asked ChatGPT.

March 30, 2026
So many people say they've had actual conversations with ChatGPT and I wondered how that worked. So I decided to begin by asking ChatGPT the question, "Who am I?" I...

My position won’t surprise you

March 25, 2026
I wondered how long it would take her to block me on social media and she finally did. Her position on Israel & Gaza has been loud and strident. I knew that my...

When your heart breaks

March 23, 2026
A silence unlike any other follows heartbreak. It's not a peaceful silence, but the stillness of something sacred having been forever shattered. You can almost...

The other side weighs in….

March 17, 2026
....on what's going on here on the Earth plane. Never have I wanted to hear more from the other side about a specific topic than I did with this one, and the...

How to clear brain fog

March 16, 2026
Most of us know the feeling: You wake up and it’s like your brain is wading through molasses. Thoughts don’t come easily. Focus is out of reach. Words vanish...

The S cookies of my childhood

March 11, 2026
These are S cookies, a remnant of my childhood.  Just about every week my grandfather would walk in the door with small white boxes of cookies from Savoia...

A conversation with ChatGPT about friendship

March 9, 2026
I've had more than a few conversations with ChatGPT over the past few months, asking its perception of my core beliefs. Their observations are, of course, drawn from the...

On holding a grudge

March 4, 2026
A grudge begins as a knot in the chest. A moment replayed, then again. A wound that didn’t get the dignity of being named, much less tended to. We tell...

Doowop and our lost innocence

March 2, 2026
There’s something about doo-wop that can undo me in the first eight bars. Put on In the Still of the Night by The Five Satins, or Maybe by the Chantels , and...

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