I believe in the need for social justice. I believe in promoting peace. I believe in doing everything I can to reduce climate change. But I am not a social justice activist. I am not active in the peace movement. And I don’t devote myself to fighting climate change. I Read more…
My daughter and her family came for a visit last weekend. Because they live an 8-hour drive away, both parents work, and they have early grade-school kids, their visits are infrequent. We did a lot of planning and preparation for the weekend, getting beds ready, baking cookies, menu planning, and Read more…
I had a dream recently about a traumatic time in my adolescence. In the dream events from my past were replaying again (as they have countless times before in my dreams), but this time I did something new, something I didn’t do in real life—I used my voice to speak Read more…
As I woke up this morning and opened my eyes, Gracie, my cat, was peering intently at my face, with her big glowing eyes only about 2 inches from my eyes. While it momentarily startled me to see her glowing eyes staring at me so intently, it also started my Read more…
We are smack dab in the middle of my favorite time of year. The weather is warm, but not too warm. Everything is growing and green because we’ve plenty of rain, but not too much. Butterflies, dragonflies, and hummingbirds are making daily visitations. And this is the time of Read more…