Need A New Game? Name Your Favorite Words.

Published in The Ferndale Record-Journal, October 28, 2009
Language fascinates me. It always has.
Some words delight me more than others because they’re either fun to work into a sentence, or they amuse me in some way.  Below are a few words that fall into this category:
Cupcake – The words ‘cup’ or ‘cake’ alone don’t thrill me, [...]

One Day In September

Published in The Ferndale Record-Journal, September 9, 2009
It might have been sunny that Saturday morning in September of 1980 but I don’t remember for sure.
All I know is that I wanted to get to the hospital so the baby wouldn’t be born on the bathroom floor, like the last one almost was.
This was my third [...]

Channeling My Domestic Goddess

She’s in there, and speaks to me often. But I’m usually too busy coming up with lame excuses to pay attention to her.
Last Saturday, though, in a fit of uncharacteristic domesticity, I listened.  What prompted this?  Friends who’d stayed with me for a week used the refrigerator as a depository for canned dog food for [...]

Monday Gravy: The New “Middle Age”

My friend turned 55 over the weekend.
He talked about being a senior citizen now.. at least in California.  He mentioned the upcoming “senior moments” he’d be experiencing.  I protested wildly.
“No!” I asserted. “I hate that term.  The only reason we can’t remember things as we age is because of all the stuff crammed into our [...]

Monday Gravy

I’ve been told the right brain never sleeps.  After all the facts and figuring of the day, the left brain says nighty-night, shuts down, and leaves the right half to ponder and muse.  This, supposedly, is the reason that often when we wake, we have ideas that didn’t occur to us the night before–the playful, [...]

Dreaming

It’s all about dreaming lately. Not sure why. No, wait.. I am sure why. There are things I want to do.. and in my own bumbling way, I’m figuring them out–with the help of Amazon.com.
Recently, I ordered a few items and it wasn’t until later I saw the pattern in my purchases.. [...]

Abundance vs. Scarcity

I think this particular meditation, though titled something different, is really about practicing generosity.
My friend, The Writer Mama has taken generosity and shaped it into an exquisite art form. Her writing and her life, it seems.. is all about how much she can give away.
It has been my habit, especially in late years, to pull [...]