What to do when the world feels like it’s spinning out of contro...

November 13, 2025
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I find it hard to cope when the world feels like it's out of control. Lately, I’ve had moments when it all just feels like too much. Maybe you have, too. The headlines keep coming, the pace of life doesn’t slow, and suddenly it feels as if the ground beneath us is tilting, shifting,...
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8 Comments · A Healing Spirit, Inspiration

Goodbye, Grey’s Anatomy

May 6, 2024
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Has it really been almost 20 years since Meredith, Derek,Christina, Bailey, Izzie, April, Jackson, Dr. Webber and the other original cast members appeared on my screen...
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5 Comments · Opinion, Reviews

Love you, Jiminy Cricket, but enough is enough!

April 30, 2024
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Besides trying to manage the worst flea season in history, we have now been invaded by crickets. A few months ago I noticed a constant chorus of chirping in our...
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7 Comments · Blog

Until … until when?

April 25, 2024
This is a photograph (or maybe a painting, I can't remember) I saw last year in an exhibition at the George Eastman House Museum in my hometown of Rochester, NY.  I...
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11 Comments · Blog, Opinion

What’s so hard about giving grace?

April 22, 2024
I'm not sure I ever understood what giving grace really meant until recent years. It means giving someone: the chance, the time and the ability to make mistakes...
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

Fragility and strength: the beauty of glass art

April 18, 2024
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Welcome to the Corning Museum of glass, about an hour and three-quarters from my hometown of Rochester, NY. It's huge---so huge! Fascinating--historically and...
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9 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Reviews

Our reward is in the doing, not the equivalence

April 16, 2024
The reward for kindness is not being seen as kind, but the electricity of giving that keeps us alive.     ~Mark Nepo When I read this, it hit me like a lightning...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Eclipse eclipsed for our some of our tribe, this time

April 14, 2024
On my way to an eclipse party, I saw a real VW Bug from the old days on the road the other day--an antique! Coincidentally, I was at our East coast house --which...
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3 Comments · Blog

Social media: our window to the world

April 12, 2024
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The complexities of life are on display every day in our social media feeds. Social media really are a window to the world. And just like any window, sometimes they...
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6 Comments · Opinion

A century of shoes

April 10, 2024
shoes
Here's more from the Fashioning San Francisco: a Century of Style, the retrospective of San Francisco fashion that opened at the deYoung Museum in February. These...
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8 Comments · Blog, Stylin'

If aliens came down…

April 9, 2024
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If aliens dropped in on us today, they'd have questions. Oh, would they have questions. Here are a few: Why do so many women look alike, with crazy-smooth skin,...
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6 Comments · Blog, Opinion

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