My friend Gail is off the internet grid this week on some river in a part of the world that, well I’m not quite sure where she is. She’s a pretty amazing millennial. Earlier this year I watched her transformation as she prepared for her new life of traveling about the world. She sold all her stuff, lost lots of weight, packed what I would … Continue reading Guest Blog……Bali Hai
The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft which can be used as a Table
I had been out of town for a week. On my way back in town from the airport I met my family at a restaurant for dinner. It was Friday night and 5-year-old Breezy was coming home with us for the weekend. We’d had a cookout the previous weekend and I remembered there were still four “Nimanim” ice cream cones (waffle cones with vanilla ice … Continue reading Out of the mouths of babes
Five-year-old Breezy and I spent Sunday afternoon at Bubbles & Brushes, a children’s art studio, painting together. It’s one of those places where you pay an hourly fee for use of the studio, and you get access to the paint, glue, glitter, brushes, scissors, little stuff to glue on one’s artwork, and then you pay extra fees for canvases, plates, pumpkins, etc. We’ve been there many times. I … Continue reading An artist’s own style
I dated for 20 glorious years. My first official car date was in 1973 at the age of 15 and the last was at the age of 34; I married three weeks short of 35 in 1993. Although there were many years of R & D leading up to the internet, going back to the early 1960’s, Al Gore actually invented the internet the year … Continue reading The Glory Years Before On-Line Dating
I scrolled through LinkedIn. “One dead, two injured, another campus shooting.” I couldn’t believe it. It was the second one this week…. My heart stopped. While part of my brain continued to read, another part begin to pray. Yet another part figured out that even with the time difference I would have heard something by now. The shooting was at Northern Arizona University; my nephew … Continue reading Another campus shooting
“I want to have your phone, Gigi, pleeeeeeease.” Her big almond shaped brown eyes are hard to ignore. “No, you can’t have Gigi’s phone. I need my phone.” She moved on to Papa. “Papa, will you get me a phone?” The next weekend she asked again. I said, “no” again. This time she said that she would “just ask Santa Claus” because she was sure … Continue reading Generation Z
It was entitled “10 signs you have a soul connection to your partner.” So really? Who writes this stuff? I’m betting it was a mid-term paper for a freshman PSYC 101 class and the writer will turn 18 later this fall. My husband saw the list in scribbled writing in a little purple notebook in the middle of our bed. “What are these?” he asked. “Love … Continue reading Soul mate partners are over-rated
Tower of Twins 