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…
This post is one of my favourites. It is a re-cycle, with edits, from a post I wrote ten years ago; In her 2011 autobiography,…
My Grandmother found a lump in one of her breasts circa 1930. Her options were limited; her breasts or her life. She opted to have…