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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The Buck On a late afternoon ride, I stumbled upon a small plaque I’d never seen before. I walked my bike on the pedestrian sidewalk to...

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

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

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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

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...

I know I’m not the only woman who loved her grandmother. But I am the only woman who loved my grandmother as I did. She was to me, the...

I watched as the gust whipped the oaks above me, sleepless with worry, expecting at any moment to hear the crack of a branch crashing...

Upon sending out the announcement of my new blog to everyone I know, love, have ever met, worked with or shared a moment in time, as...

I’m that old sweater. You know the one. We all have it, stuffed in the bottom drawer or the very back of your closet. It’s been there...