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From Boston to Ocala, Taking Good Care.
“I celebrate that we’re all crazy and damaged and we’re all sort of floundering and flailing, and yet we stick together. We take care of each other the best we can. And that is so touching it fills me with hope. It takes people a lot of decades to realize that we’re...
Sunday’s Thought
"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side." - Anne Lamott Is it a coincidence, that just when I needed to hear that, I read it, flipping through Bird by Bird searching for inspiration? I don't think so....
Wet Dogs and Hurricanes
I saw a friend yesterday who also used to have a home full of kids and I confessed that only she would appreciate how I had lived through all that busy family time, and along the way had many dogs—some really, really good ones, and only a few not so good—and I can’t...
Sunday’s Thought
"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love..." -- Marcus Aurelius Meditations
15 Minutes of Fame?
This morning I was on a radio show with Bruce Weber, the New York Times obituary writer who wrote the obit for the man who invented the Hokey Pokey, E.L. Doctorow, Edward Albee, Jonathan Demme.. to name a few-- He also wrote a book called Life is Wheel about cycling...
The Path of Totality
My friend was answering his phone "path of totality" this week, and it made me laugh-- as the lingo of the eclipse, like so many things, has other meanings in the wider world. Totality: wholeness, fullness, completeness, sum total, all, everything, the whole ball of...
Monday’s Thought
I never managed to get to Sunday's Thought yesterday, for all kinds of good reasons. Then this morning, my friend who has brain cancer and yet remains so cheerful and productive and generous with her time and talent, sent me these words from Gandhi. (She also brought...