How we spend the {still limited} hours of our long life is ...

July 8, 2013
Damaged, creative, crazy soul-- I love Sylvia Plath and can't get enough of books by and about her. Her journals? OMG, the words in her journals are lively, active,...
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Picture post cards were tweets & emails of the day

July 7, 2013
Here's something I didn't know. Back in Edwardian and Victorian times, mail was delivered several times a day in big cities--sometimes as many as six. Now, the postal...
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“I’m sorry.”

July 6, 2013
Two words, maybe three, and they hold the power of the world. No qualifications. No "but." No equivocation. Just I'm sorry. One of the saddest things in the world...
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Talking independence on Independence Day

July 4, 2013
 Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.~George Bernard Shaw I think more Americans need to...
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Beam me up to a good mass transit system

July 4, 2013
I wrote this months ago, before BART went on strike. BART is a "rapid transit" train that many people in the San Francisco Bay area take to work. But not near enough,...
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Confetti and a cocktail

July 2, 2013
This, my friends, is the ONLY way to go through life. With a cocktail in hand and confetti in our hair.  And I believe we women in and past midlife understand this to a...
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Trading Facebook for facetime

July 1, 2013
A few weeks ago an online friend commented that she'd given up her addiction to social media and had never been happier. I struggle, myself, with the amount of time I...
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About dreams, work & success

June 29, 2013
                                        What...
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Life isn’t short, it’s long

June 27, 2013
How many times have you heard someone say, "Life is short!"  Or said it yourself? It's a constant in my vocabulary, a reminder that we should all make the most of...
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Dialogue is how we reach understanding

June 26, 2013
National (and individual) conversations about racism, homophobia and bigotry have amped up this week, starting with the Paula Deen deposition and on to the invalidation...
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