bucket list
I’ve had an interesting life replete with adventure, travel, and mostly great stuff. Of course there have been occasional trials, tribulations and challenges, but I have a lot to be…
which is more exciting? giving birth or being born?
I was born at 0600 PST on January 28, 1956. I turn sixty-five today January 28, 2021. It seems like yesterday and several lifetimes ago that I was turning six….
almost christmas eve wishes from a christmas eve past
Christmas 2020: I made this video comprising pics of mom and me during the festive season at her big red brick house on the hill in 2008. I was…
14 bouquets of spring joy
I first created and shared this post on June 22, 2014. I’m republishing it again on June 4, 2020, because today I have felt joyful after what has seemed a…
8 good reasons to go crazy
(Originally posted in 2014) “Perhaps being crazy is actually a good thing!” (Said I to myself, myself having been a square peg in a round hole pretty much from the…
one thing i’m grateful for today 20/04/16
The last few days have been really hard for me from a number of different perspectives. I needed something to lift my spirits. Usually, a haircut does the trick……
12 things i’m grateful for easter 20/04/12
This is the fourth post in my resurrected practice of writing lists of things I am grateful for. The first, second and third posts in this series are here,…
8 things i’m grateful for today 20/04/08
This is the third post in my resurrected practice of writing lists of things I am grateful for. The first and second posts in this series are here and here…
10 things i’m grateful for today 20/04/06
This is the second post in my resurrected practice of writing lists of things I am grateful for. The first post in this series is here. Others from the more…
i am grateful
I scribbled this poem during one of my writing group sessions in spring 2016 when I was still caring for my mom who lived with Alzheimer disease. I was…