People who have been to Barcelona will immediately tell you what a beautiful city it is. The next thing they tell you is to watch…
A wonderful way to end a good summer is to travel to somewhere you’ve never been. I’m in Barcelona. I’ll go from here on to…
Back in the fifties my brother used to jive dance with me in our living room. In the sixties, my sister taught me how to…
An ‘elevator pitch’ is a carefully crafted speech that sales people design specifically to inflate curiosity and inspire business. When someone asks me, “What is…
There is a profound difference between the boredom that arises from being unoccupied and the stillness that accompanies a good daydream. In this era of…
If you are fortunate enough to have friends from your high school years, (beyond a Facebook connection), here’s a question; if you met for the…
I re-read one of the first short stories I wrote and I could barely get through it. There was so much I wanted to edit…
This Mother’s Day, I gifted my long-gone Mother with a posthumous answer to a vocabulary challenge she liked to pose. My Mother was thirty-nine when…
Conversations at family dinners are decidedly different when there are newly discovered blood relatives in attendance. My older sister gave a baby up for adoption…
Would the Dalai Lama be as famous as he is if he hadn’t been exiled from Tibet after China’s invasion? It’s an interesting question; most…