Women's Issues Midlife And Beyond
…They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods… -Edith Wharton Circa 2011. I tried my hardest to look confident, but inside, I was Jello—the yellow kind with carrot shards nobody wants to eat. For months, I had been planning and dreaming of this photographic trip to Tibet, and now that… Read More
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on… Read More
Driving home from Rochester, Mayo Hospital, almost two years ago, the pain of loss made the starless night sky even blacker. Tears flowed down my face unabated, and my mind clawed in vain to make sense of the evening’s events. That night, five months into my daughter’s pregnancy, five months of riding the rollercoaster of excitement and hope, I witnessed… Read More
“Dandelions are just friendly little weeds who only want to be loved like flowers.” ― Heather Babcock “Pee the bed.” Not Shakespearean is it? Dandelions, it turns out, have diuretic properties. Who knew? (Well, obviously the French people, but not me.) Needless to say, my awareness concerning dandelions is embarrassingly minimal: –When you rub a dandelion on a siblings face,… Read More
“It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.” –Tallulah Bankhead I was surprised when I opened the book, and a photograph drifted to the floor. Huh. The book, The Mane Event, was given to me around 1994 by my mother and had been sitting on a shelf ever since. Had I forgotten the… Read More
“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri Hello, my friends. I feel as though an explanation is due. For years I’ve been posting a weekly blog of some sort and enjoy the eclectic sharing. As always, my interests range from aging, creativity, and health, to, um, Tad… Read More
“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ― Rob Liano How is it possible to feel the depths of sadness and the infinity of wonder at the same time? How can one say hello and goodbye in the same breath, with equal intensity? How can… Read More
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” ― Mark Twain I didn’t think much about the car approaching from behind. As a young girl, my worldview was secure and small. People were all friendly, mostly consisting of family and neighbors. On this day I had decided to walk… Read More
