Five years ago today, on June 10, 2009, I lay on an operating table with my arms immobilized in Velcro crucifix constraints forming perfect 90 degree angles from my torso. Salty tears slid...
Please excuse my absence. I've been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as...
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post's (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn't size the photos...
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a...
Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that's been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It's the one with...
Spirit and I got out of Dodge last night. After thinking about it for years, I finally said, "This is the time." It wasn't an angry, "I'm leaving!" kind of decision. Or, "You...
Today Spirit stumbled coming up the three steps from the back patio. His hindquarters just collapsed. I helped him up and he was wagging his tail as soon as he made it into the house,...
Are you a joiner type of person? Or do you prefer to work solo? Do you find safety in numbers, or do you feel alone in a crowd? I've always tended to be in the latter category. Although...
I hope you've enjoyed the holidays as much as I have. This year has been especially rich in family time for us, with my mother's 80th birthday a few weeks ago bringing loved ones in from...
How often do you wish you had a second chance at something? The great thing about life, if you're paying attention, is that very often you do get to try again. In the classic comedy film...
On the anniversary of Newtown, and with our holiday lights twinkling once again in the moonlight, it felt right to repost the piece I wrote shortly after the school shootings in...
Despite my best intentions, I've fallen off my blogging schedule the past few weeks. This is my second round of blogging through the holidays, and I learned last year just how hard it is...