The random not-randomness of life, chapter gajillion and 473.
So, in the last two days I've been in this "let's do it, fall is coming, things have been sitting around too long" mode of…
In the way things work in this wonderful world, I was helping my mom yesterday get some items she wanted to donate to Goodwill and some items she was taking to the landfill…
Well, that was random ... ish.
I'm sitting here, this exact minute, typing up some labels for a box of bubblewrap our Mad Tea Party camp needs for packing some of our teacups and…
There are many miracles in life. Big ones and small ones, gargantuan ones and micro ones. Many of these miracles, in my experience, are matters of timing and synchronicity.
Yet whether large or small,…
While I always figured myself to be the type of person who'd never-ever travel somewhere by bus, wearing an ID card around my neck, Life has a way of surprising you; and there…
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…
Some decades ago in my life (likely in the mid 1990s-ish), I received an invitation to a somewhat fancy event down in Northeast D.C. for some purpose and cause about which I have…
I visited UMBC's campus earlier today to meet up with their magazine's managing editor and photographer for a photoshoot they were doing for an article I wrote about one of their alum, Chandra…
How's this for fabulous?
I met for lunch earlier today Jean Moon , my mentor and client from decades back and someone with whom I hadn't caught up for several…
I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping.
But then all this other stuff happened.
I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the…
There are moments in life that are just meant to be. Here's one of them.
When I was 20, I moved to San Francisco ... without a lick of help--in any manner--from my parents,…
When I was eight or nine years old, one of my teachers told our class a story that has stayed with me all these decades since. Here is what my mind remembers.
There were…