If there is one lesson I have found useful from my Mother’s diaries it would be her annual habit of assessing the previous year and…
Creativity evolves; by definition it can’t be stationary. As part of an overhaul of this entire site I reviewed blog posts from the very beginning….
Covid was a major disrupter to my family’s long standing Christmas traditions. Pre-covid, we had a large family dinner, including gift-giving. “Nothing I have to…
It started out as simple curiosity. Never in a million years did I think I would develop an addiction to TikTok. For all my rants…
There is a peacefulness to old-school analog technology that is sorely missing from the data-mining, invasive smart technologies we have become accustomed to. Specifically, I’m…
Regardless of how old you are, when you look back, does it seem like your life has happened in a flash? In particular, do those…
Shame is a powerful silencer. My working theory is that the degree to which one is comfortable sharing their shameful secrets is the degree to…
After my friend’s father died, while sorting his belongings, she discovered his cross-dressing wardrobe, complete with wigs and high heels. Perhaps he intended for her…
In Robbie Burns’ poem, To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church, the lady was unaware that her new hat, and…
In Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, King Leontes becomes irrationally convinced, without concrete evidence, that his wife is cheating on him with his best friend, another…