Open sky

Far as I can see

Meeting water

At that invisible line

Horizon line

Gives me perspective

Between sky and sea

Sand meets foamy waves

White terns flash overhead

Yellow dog swims by

Bikinis crowd the beach… Read full post »

 In my opinion these may be some of the most overused and misunderstood words in the English language. Think about it. If we were all just ourselves the world would be a chaotic messy place. Noisy, too. Y’know why? Because if we were really t… Read full post »

She is not the first cat I have cradled in my arms as we prepare for her death together. And she won't be the last. She is, however, one who gives me her total trust these last weeks of her life. She follows… Read full post »

  My friend Ruth was 50 when I was born. We didn’t meet until she was 72 and I was 22 but there was something in both of us that seemed to know a bit of magic when we saw it and we became fast friends right up to… Read full post »

Five years ago at this time I went for my regular mammogram appointment. As I filled out my paper work I had a twinge of unease. I heard my little voice say, “Maybe you should be prepared. This visit may be a little different.” I had had a number… Read full post »

Most of the time I try to live my life in a pretty forthright manner. I have a very strong code of ethics which has evolved throughout my life and is probably a little off center if measured against certain religious and cultural tenets but it works for me.… Read full post »

I rustle around to find my jacket and sneakers. I may throw some binoculars, bug spray and a guide book in a bag with my sketchbook and camera, but mostly I am anxious to just go and I usually forget something. It doesn’t matter.

 Depending on… Read full post »

So what’s up with all the attention around addicts and addiction today? Remember when someone had to sneak around to AA meetings and hope no one publicly outed them? No one wanted to admit they had a problem, never mind an addiction. Today it’s like, hey, you an addict?… Read full post »

Dear Maria,

 I saw in the paper this morning that you and Arnold are separating, at least for awhile. I nodded my head and took a sip of coffee when I read this because even though I don’t know either of you I felt like I understood. I thought… Read full post »

I can’t help it. I love spring more each year as I get older. Maybe it’s an age thing because it hasn’t always been true.

 When I was young I tossed spring off as much too obvious and easy to love. Give me winter any day, especially the… Read full post »

Mother’s Day is coming up and I don’t think anyone loved Mother’s Day quite as much as my mom. She became a single mom when we were quite young and for her, Mother’s Day was the day we, my sister and I, pulled out all the stops to give… Read full post »

A friend of mine is dying. She went to the doctor a few months ago with a headache and they discovered she had a massive brain tumor. She has gone through all sorts of treatments but yesterday we got word from her daughter that the cancer has spread and this lovely… Read full post »

You know you’ve thought about it. Maybe you’ve even done it. I’ve thought about it but the last time I really cheated on something was probably in junior high school and that nearly scarred me for life so I haven’t done it since. I don’t have the nerves for… Read full post »

My family has a long genetic history of collecting, saving and storing things and it would appear that very few of us escaped the gene. We are not hoarders in the same sense of some of the folks you see on those voyeuristic TV shows that have brought serial… Read full post »

Old Mrs. Richardson had the craggiest, bumpiest, most wrinkly face I had ever seen. Her eyes seemed tiny, surrounded by folds of skin that wrinkled even more when she laughed, and yet they shone so brightly they reminded me of stars. I was about 12 years old and she was in… Read full post »