There is a gentle man who comes through the neighborhood where I live. He does this each year, in the fall, like clockwork, offering to clean leaves out of gutters and to do…
In 2005, I was married to an amazing man, Eran Eisen, and we were living in south Florida, right below West Palm Beach, when news of Hurricane Wilma came through. Wilma was a…
Late last night, as I was finishing up on a project, I started to feel not well. Maybe it was the cup of blackberry and cinnamon tea I’d just tried for the first…
I’ve gone through different periods in my life where the fear and claustrophobia of being in a cave overwhelmed me. It wasn’t just fear around caves, per se, but having to crawl through…
I purchased a new bike a few weeks ago--a black one, but I returned it and got a different one.
After purchasing the initial black bike, the store owner was helping me 1) get…
As you probably have heard by now, Historic Ellicott City, a charming, quaint, vibrant, beloved town, some 244 years-old and counting, suffered a devastating flash flood on Saturday, July 30, 2016.
Restaurants, stores and…
I've been in San Francisco bunches this year, and as such, have been around quite a few panhandlers. Earlier today, I was approached by a maybe-homeless-definitely-panhandling woman.
She was friendly. She nodded at…
My iPhone was snatched out of my hands. Stolen yesterday. I was on a MUNI train in San Francisco. I was helping an older gentleman next to me find some information online and…
As much as I’m not a practitioner of new year’s resolutions, I can understand them. And, I’m betting, a ton of folk have added to their list of resolutions for 2010, “Quit Smoking.”
I’d like to…
It was a moment I couldn’t pass up. Traipsing through DC with a few hundred Santas, we’d just left the Lincoln Memorial and were en route to the White House when I saw…
I didn’t expect to be so taken. I didn’t expect to have such a deep response. I didn’t expect much of anything, really.
See, I volunteered recently to help make yarn wigs for…
Few words I have for this right now. Dancing with light via Lorne’s Electric Heliotrope Theater was one of the most … well, watch the video and imagine how exquisite the experience probably…