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…
Now that the winter holidays season has mostly passed, I can speak.
I'm not saying when or where this happened, but I will say that I was able to offload a what-am-I-gonna-do-with-this? bottle of…
For the past few months, anytime anyone in our (small, but mighty) family spoke with my sister Rebecca, we got an earful about the Global Seed Library Census project she was spearheading. Well,…
I came home this evening from running some errands and wanted to watch a little TV while eating dinner before I began a project on my radar this evening.
I've heard Neil Howe (the…
Leonard Cohen is one of my favorite singers of all time. I've danced to his music, cried to his music and felt connected to the full spectrum of humanity listening to his music.…
