Dear Friends and Family, It’s been 2½ years since we left Kansas City, and DC finally feels like home. That’s probably because we moved. Again! I thought we’d stay in […]

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief, that is a […]

This day last year is the last day that I saw my sister Jane alive. It is not a good memory. We had a screaming fight about her “not trying” […]

I used to love cemeteries. Now I don’t. When I was younger, walking through a graveyard satisfied my need to feel one with history. Because living in America isn’t like Europe. […]

I belong to a neighborhood Listserv in Washington, DC. The following email was sent around to members this morning, accompanied by a surveillance video titled, Greedy Halloween Kids. “We put […]

My thoughts this election cycle: It seems a given that most politicians lie, cheat and steal, so there’s nothing shocking this go-round And if that’s true, then all that we […]

Where I grew up in Bethpage, NY, there was a different ethnic family living in every other house on the block. Some were 1st generation immigrants. Mostly though, they were […]

More oldies that have caught my attention. This is in front of my home in Bethpage, NY. Two neighborhood kids (that seem more like family) are on the left, and […]

Some of the “Ew Things” I see on my daily walk: Sitting on a park bench overlooking the ocean today, I was paused there to text my son back when […]