Can you see a pattern here? I can. I keep trying to start this blog but stop after a little while then as the crocuses start to peek up from the ground I start it again. This last time…
This is a post I have been planning for ages and I kept coming back to it but always felt too raw. After losing my mom I bought several books on grief. Sadly, almost none of them helped. One of…
I was remembering that April is National Poetry month and thinking about what I wanted to do to recognize it. I started to wonder if April was only National Poetry Month. I let my fingers do the typing and according…
“Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted–a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with…
Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow. Now rings the woodland loud and long, The distance takes a lovelier hue, And…
Tea is the elixir of life – Lao Tzu Dreary Saturday drinking home made ginger tea and watching Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. One of my favorite books andI adore the BBC mini series with Alec Guinness . I…
An Irish proverb for the day. St Patrick’s Day on a Friday in NYC and I am home instead of out and about. Not sure if that is a wise or boring choice. Went out for lunch with a co…
“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are…
I am caught up in giraffe mania! If you don’t know what I am talking about I am talking about the long wait for April the giraffe to have her baby. She has become an internet sensation in the last…
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “Cat: Where are you going? Alice: Which way should I go? Cat: That depends on where…