In 2013, I took the advice of someone I'd met on Facebook and had known but a few weeks (Charlie), and I went out to Burning Man a week early for what is…
The amount of time I spend salivating over the various color options for Pentel's Energel pens is something! I love the teal, the burgundy and the steel blue. I love the purple and…
Recently, I was over at my mom's place for dinner. We were chatting about this and that. (Admittedly, I've been plying her, of late, for more details about her childhood and younger years…
This is, I believe, the place.
When I saw this video (below) on social media, I had an instant visceral reaction. Then I saw the location where the video was take -- Twister Falls…
It's snowing outside. Little specks and flecks. Not much volume or thickness, but it's snow, and it's pretty outside, and it's the MLK holiday, to boot, and, well, I wanted to go outside…
In 2013, I went to Black Rock City, home of Burning Man, a week early to help build the French Quarter Village, of which More Carrot, the camp for which I was a…
The order in which things are said, done or occur matters in many instances and in others, not at all.
It matters, for example, whether I put the oil in the saucepan and heat…
As winter sets in and temperatures drop, being warm and cozy starts to climb higher on my list of priorities.
Despite layering myself in warm wools for sleep (wool socks for sure, a worn…
You may not give it much thought, but there is so much involved in getting those perfectly-shaped, blemish-free, robust-looking veggies to the store.
I know because they rarely emerge from the garden.
As…
When my father died a few years ago and left a muddled and messy estate behind, we desperately needed an estate lawyer. As the estates's personal representative, I asked a lawyer whose opinion…
Yesterday I had an appointment at an office that has quite a few patients come through in a given day.
Someone had come into the office before me -- whether that was…
My mother is an artist. (She's also many other things, but she is an artist, for sure.) I just love her work!
When she was a child in an immigrant-rich, crowded and filled-to-the-gills, coal-mining town…