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...

Fresh fruit recipes for summer

July 19, 2014
Mid-summer's the time when we're looking for fresh recipes using the abundant harvest we see at the market. Tasty summer fruit recipes. Easy summer salads. Healthy...

Meno-madness

July 18, 2014
No one told me anything about menopause. Nothing. Nada. So I swore I'd talk about it out loud so that women coming up behind me would know what to expect.  And,...

Pretty things

July 17, 2014
Sometimes, we just need to look at pretty things... eye candy....inspiration--just pure pleasure. I fell in love with this adorable bird cage that combines traditionally...

Silicon Valley: the way we were

July 16, 2014
Way back before Google and Facebook and even before Apple, eight brainy engineers defected from a semiconductor company to start their own transistor business. Led by...

Celebrating five. Or 42. Or just celebrating.

July 15, 2014
Forty-two years ago today I walked down the aisle of St. Ambrose Church in Rochester, NY and married my adorable 24-year-old college sweetheart, who, coincidentally...

The spirits showed off. And delivered cool info.

July 14, 2014
  May I open my mind to receive wisdom from higher powers & allow their guidance to lead me to peace & tranquility all the days of my life. That's...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just Us Girls giveaway!

July 13, 2014
What's on your summer reading list?   Riley has some ideas.... Mary Buchan, MidLifestyle RNventor is hosting a book blog hop during her virtual book launch of Over...

You are the sky

July 12, 2014
You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. ~Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun Weather comes and goes. So do our woes. And no, that's not a poem--it's a brilliant...

Commit to taking one step. Just one.

July 11, 2014
If you've been following my blog you know that I've become less and less tolerant of the violence in our world. I'm tired of people dying from violent crime. Kids,...

This is how it happened.

July 10, 2014
If there's one thing women are most interested in,  it's how my husband and I got back together some 27 years after our divorce.  It seems inconceivable that we could...

Follow Carol

Welcome!

Here you’ll find my blog, some of my essays, published writing, and my solo performances. There’s also a link to my Etsy shop for healing and grief tools offered through A Healing Spirit.

 

I love comments, so if something resonates with you in any way, don’t hesitate to leave a comment on my blog. Thank you for stopping by–oh, and why not subscribe so you don’t miss a single post?

Archives

Subscribe to my Blog

Receive notifications of my new blog posts directly to your email.