Regrets, I’ve had a few

April 15, 2025
Does anyone get out of here without regret for the life we wish we'd lived? Or at least regret for something we didn't do? Life really is a series of opportunity...

From soup to nuts, so to speak

April 12, 2025
Here we are again with our fun bloggers, as we dig deeper into spring. Today we've got some sweet stories and also useful info. All good reading. Meryl: The coffee...

What Pearl Harbor teaches us about war

April 7, 2025
I'm a pacifist, a position I came to later in life. I can't say I ever really thought about war during my life, even though, yes, in college during the late 1960s I...

The most effective antidote for stressful times

April 4, 2025
I'll just cut to the chase. We're living in stressful times. Uncharted, even. How are we to handle it and still maintain our equilibrium? It ain't easy. But I've...

How to dance the dance of life in the midst of chaos

March 31, 2025
Seems crazy, doesn't it? To think of dancing anything, including the dance of life, while so much around us is being demolished. When many of us can feel only fear....

Why I love digging into the past

March 11, 2025
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”  ~Joan Didion A while ago,...

Is it too early to celebrate springtime?

March 9, 2025
Spring is just around the corner! I keep telling myself that, as I sit in our hometown of Rochestesr, NY looking at the remants of some big snowstorms and expecting...

Wabi sabi, kemo sabe

March 4, 2025
If I've read one thing about wabi sabi, I've read a hundred in the past five or six years. It's a popular concept found in many forms of Japanese art. Oh, you...

The day I realized I was not a god

February 25, 2025
I have a god complex. I admit it. I think I know what's best and --if it's something that really matters--- I am not going to be shy about trying to make it...

Have you found effective coping strategies for this new yea

February 19, 2025
Given the state of our world, checking in seems to be appropriate. How are we all doing? How are we coping?  And what coping strategies work (or don't work) for...

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