I don’t get out socially very often. As a seventy-three-year-old widow, having endured many years of caregiving and two years of Covid, socializing has become a skill long forgotten. I am working on that and trying to re-engage, but it isn’t easy. When I read about the recent tragedies in California in which many people […]
It meant a lot to me to be invited to join a book club, even though I had only a vague idea of what was expected of me. I had never been in a book club before. The first time I went to a meeting I arrived too early and brought wine and food. I […]
I have been reading a book in which there is a character, Michael, who struggles with learning in school. He is bright but cannot read. In fact, he cannot think well at all while he is in school. When he is outside, though, he becomes insightful, poetic, creative, and assertive. When he is not in […]
Snowbird of Paradise 