Are “feet of clay” really just human flaws?

June 24, 2026
Surprise, surprise. Deepak Chopra was an Epstein buddy. Cesar Chavez raped women and minors. Many big names appear in the files in what seem to be incriminating ways. Powerful men and yes, women, too, overlooked, ignored or even took part in nefarious activities. Horrific things happened....

The graveyard that’s Page 2 of Google

July 10, 2013
This is scarily true.  Who even looks at page two of Google search results? Hardly anyone.   We're lazy, basically, and digging takes too much effort. Today, digging...

Spirits talk to us

July 9, 2013
This is what our roses looked like in the two spring-summers we've lived here. In May, a medium was at my house. She told me that when she came out to our family room...

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,...

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...

“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...

Walking the dogs in triple-digit heat

July 5, 2013
Thanks, climate-change, for the triple digit heat wave we've been experiencing this week. You know, the one that didn't want to go away?  Yeah. That one.  The one that...

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...

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,...

Punk: Chaos to Couture

July 3, 2013
There are few things I like better than a good historical costume exhibition. Saw a great fashion exhibit in London. It reminded me of something I saw in NYC in May...

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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