Should lonely seniors get a dog?

December 10, 2024
It's only natural for seniors who find themselves living alone to long for a companion animal. And of course, lonely seniors can make wonderful pet owners.  But sometimes, they may get in over their heads. Fact is, we seniors are in the last part of our lives and there are many...

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...

Fragility and strength: the beauty of glass art

April 18, 2024
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...

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...

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...

Social media: our window to the world

April 12, 2024
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...

A century of shoes

April 10, 2024
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...

If aliens came down…

April 9, 2024
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,...

The beauty of Botticelli

April 5, 2024
Sometimes, an artist brings his era alive in such a beautiful and vivid way that you're left wanting more. Such is the case with Botticelli, whose drawings (and some...

When the world is dark, the doctor prescribes a frothy podc

April 3, 2024
Podcasts. A strange hybrid of radio show and blogpost. Since I don't have an Iphone, I wasn't really sure how to access podcasts at first. Then, I realized that...

End-of-life: an unavoidable topic

March 27, 2024
Let's face it: no one likes to consider their death.  Few things are as sensitive (and downright scary) to some as discussions with loved ones about end-of-life...

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