Category: Blog

I’m driving down the highway half listening to NPR in my car. “Florida Matters Live & Local” is on the air and Dr. Deby Cassill, an associate professor of biology at USF, is chatting about the role of love bugs in the ecosystem and how in the past they inflicted damage on our cars’ paint Continue reading

Nancy Pelosi – after an almost 40-year run in the United States Congress – has retired. Pelosi, 86 years old, often talks about “time running short”.  My sentiments exactly and I’m eight years younger than Nancy. My own mother was always in a hurry – and I never understood her sense of cosmic rushing until Continue reading

15 Reasons Why I Could Divorce My Husband He never throws away his used tissues – rather, he leaves the crumpled up messes on any available surface – for me to dispose of them. His organizational method post-retirement is to throw everything he needs to deal with in his grandmother’s wicker wash basket and go Continue reading

For so many years, my mother was my North Star. After she died, I realized I had internalized many of her life lessons – along with a modicum of her amazing creativity and her unending zest for life – all residing securely within me in my gut. Thus, after she passed away, my own gut became Continue reading

People say becoming a grandparent is like falling in love. I never understood that until I became a grandmother. And then I understood it powerfully. I simply couldn’t get enough of those grand babies.  Facetime. Real time. Any time. I thought about my grandkids constantly. I gazed at their pictures obsessively. I counted the days until I would see them once again.And when I Continue reading

My husband and I recently traveled to Connecticut and New Jersey for a whirlwind three days jammed packed with seeing three of our sons and their families.  I let it all go. E-mails went unanswered. Texts flooding my phone got no responses. I ordered nothing from Amazon. And I didn’t key into my Tasks app once. However, anxiety about Continue reading

Drowning in minutiae? Longing to embrace a life less harnessed to your To-Do List? Read on….  Every three months a super glossy magazine comes out called “Where Women Create – Inspiring Work Spaces of Extraordinary Women.”  Published by Stampington &Company’s Somerset Studio, it’s a delight to the senses – filled with feature articles on women Continue reading

As April 15 approaches, I run the same column I do every year in memory of the very best friend I ever had. This year I’m running my letter to her in shortened form because there is an update…  Dear Andrea, On April 15, 2026, it will be fifty-one years since I’ve seen you.  No one knows Continue reading

It’s always the same routine: Why?Because for so many years, whenever I returned home, my parents waited eagerly at the top of that same escalator for the first glance of me, their eldest child, returning home. It is an unusually warm, balmy night for the month of March in Ohio. I pull-up to snap a Continue reading

I’ve been scammed and it’s a harrowing experience.  Once scammed, the experience stays with you – like a nagging tooth ache that continuously sears through your consciousness.  Nagging questions keep me up at night: Falling into my inbox is an alert from “UPS” signalling an undeliverable package. SCAM. Popping up on my cell phone is Continue reading