When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

Shine on!

August 8, 2014
Look. There's a lot of pain in the world and a whole bunch of it is caused by how people treat one another. We pay lip service to the Golden Rule, but how often do we...

Grammar bitch talks grammar errors

August 7, 2014
Grammar errors. Read enough Facebook posts and even blogs and the grammar makes your eyes burn. I am not exactly the grammar police, but I have to admit: I do judge....

Pythagorus, numbers and Three Dog Night

August 6, 2014
I've undertaken the study of Pythagorean philosophy recently  as part of my metaphysical reading and it's not easy going. "I'm struggling a little with the...

Everything’s got a price

August 5, 2014
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau Everything is a tradeoff. Everything. If you want to make buckets of money,...

Paging Marcus Welby, MD to our health care system

August 4, 2014
Where do I even begin? I'm certain every one of you has their own family health care horror story and many actually horrific rather than annoying, as mine was. I mean, I...

Eight must-packs for any vacation

August 3, 2014
Whether it’s a road trip or a vacation across the world, there are a few things you might not think of packing  that will absolutely come in handy when you’re...

Coming out: Part 1

August 2, 2014
The closet still exists. So many of us in the San Francisco Bay area find it hard to believe that it does: we've lived with openly out colleagues, politicians and...

Lazy days of August

August 1, 2014
August brings with it the dog days of summer, those hot and lazy days that we know are numbered. The month is all the sweeter for our certainty that, before long, ...

The root of the root

July 31, 2014
i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me  (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear;and whatever is done by only me...

Healing hands

July 30, 2014
I was once married to a man who had healing hands.  They emanated heat and energy when laid upon an ailing muscle and it was obvious that something was going on...

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