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…
“Draw what you like and hope others like it too”. Charles Schulz Substitute “create” for “draw” and that advice is suitable for any medium. As…
My late husband liked to collect things. He also liked to keep things. If he brought something into the house, it stayed there, particularly if…