Can we hold differences gently when hatred burns?

October 17, 2025
Someone recently said to another, "Thank you for holding our differences with such gentleness." Thing is, I know people who feel hatred and a desire to harm others that it's almost impossible. Who am I kidding? It IS impossible. Fully impossible. Gentleness has its limits We like to...

How about some first of summer baby boom tidbits?

June 18, 2023
What do you see when you look at this image? I like to remember how simple life was back in the baby boom days.  A couple of TV channels. Rock and roll on a...

Everything’s coming up roses…

June 15, 2023
I'm inviting you today to just feast your eyes on some pretty. Because everything's coming up roses at our house, and I wanted to share the beauty with you. Of course,...

Some losses rearrange the world

June 14, 2023
That's the thing about loss, isn't it? Our world changes forever. Our hearts break. Someone we love leaves. A beloved pet crosses the Rainbow Bridge. Death takes...

How the age of political correctness is not aging well

June 6, 2023
It is entirely possible to have questions about the performance of a woman of color in an elected office. Even when our politics are left of center. So do not...

Don’t let toxic masculinity (and CTE) destroy your so

May 31, 2023
An impactful piece on chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE in the Washington Post* broke my heart. CTE is a fatal brain disease associated with repeated...

Farmer Wants Wife… in Australia??

May 23, 2023
Who knew that an ad for Farmer Wants Wife. (in the bush, no less), would be so attractive! But the new show, Farmer Wants A Wife has proven quite popular. And...

The greatest unreality show on earth

May 19, 2023
Opinions are like a$$holes...everybody's got one.  That saying's been around for a long time, but it's never been more true than it is today, in the age of social...

What I learned from a potentially heart-stopping situation

May 17, 2023
If you read regularly, you know that we had a rather complicated trip to Hawaii in February. (If you haven't read it yet, here's that story.) But that wasn't the...

Nothing less useful than willful resistance to the realitie...

May 9, 2023
Well, look. We can't stop the aging process, no matter how we try. It's a natural process and if we're lucky, we get to go all the way through it. Oh, sure, we can...

What are your thoughts on the Coronation?

May 7, 2023
The connection with history was hard to miss during the Coronation of King Charles III. Some version of this ceremony has happened for many, many centuries in Great...

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