I’ve been awake for hours, lying in the dark listening to the syncopated rhythm of the rain, reflecting on what has come and gone over the past year. Waiting...

I’ve arrived. I’ve been looking forward to this trip to Kauai for months, ever since I booked my reservation for the Kauai Writer’s Conference. There have be...

Summer is leaving me and I am sad. The air outside is damp and cold even though it is not yet November. I feel cheated. I want more. Summer has always been m...

Funny thing about living life to its fullest, it causes tension, trepidation and sometimes real fear. That’s how it is when I push my boundaries and reach be...

Yesterday I experienced one of those moments of “ah ha” that are usually chalked up to coincidence. But I prescribe more to the school of the benevolent univ...

Bloom Where You’re Planted As life goes on over time, we change, everyone does. Sometimes, we drift off course caught up in a tide of circumstances that turn...

When I was a young girl, I had a neighbor named Frank. Frank was handsome, statuesque, intelligent, cheerful and terminally ill. I grew up on a short street w...

Walking my dog in the park one early morning, I encountered a man doing the same. I put my dog on her leash and stepped off to the side of the trail as he ca...

Looking back on the path that brought me here, to this precise moment in this exact spot, I realize how each seemingly insignificant decision, every choice I...

I stumbled across what seemed like an intriguing coincidence this morning, considering how exposed I felt at times last evening, watching at a distance as st...

It started as a simple cold. I had a date with a friend who warned he had a bit of a sore throat and perhaps, we should postpone. Feeling bulletproof, I decl...

It’s harder as we get older. It seems people have even more reasons now to shut the door in our face. The world sees us as spent and done; useless and beyond...

“A sunrise and a sunset look pretty much the same. It all depends which direction you’re facing.” That’s it for today, my attitude and my opinion. It feels f...

I need a new coffee cup. This one has so many chips the handle is about to snap off in my hand and drench my lap with my favorite beverage. There is not much...

A black or white mentality has always been my issue, according to other people, that is. I have found it clean, well-organized and comforting. Limited option...

The time has come. I’ve been responsible and cautious for six decades. And now, I really have nothing to lose and everything to gain by stepping out and jump...