

Blue into Silver... or... How to Overcome the Holiday Blues
Loads of Latkes. Hordes of Holly. Oodles of cookies. The holidays, whichever you celebrate- or don’t- are upon us. I talk with people who...


A Room of My Own
I just moved. ...Again. Risk averse, I am not. Afraid of change, not me. After years of embracing change, sometimes thinking that I...


Forget Regret!
Now that I’m a bit older, (a phrase I have come to accept), I keep running across the question, “Given the opportunity to look back,...


Letting go while still holding on
Six years ago, my brother was killed. He was murdered. Six months ago my friend’s husband died in his sleep. Twelve years ago, my mother...


For the Fourth: Making Peace with the Past
NPR broadcast a story recently noting that 87% of the households in the US will grill sometime over the 4th of July week-end. Wow!...