Leaving The Door Open

Non-Fiction Stories…Follow Who You Are

  • The Spirit of a Library

    The Spirit of a Library

    Herman Wouk. Ken Follett. David Baldacci. Barack Obama. What do these authors have in common? They all kept my mother company at one time or another. Books were her passion (or at least one of them) for as long as I can remember. When I…

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  • Putting On Brave Faces

    Putting On Brave Faces

    It has been months since I wrote about my 91-year-old mother Ginny who resides in Memory Care (the highest level of nursing and trained staff…

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  • Women Helping Women  – A Conversation

    Women Helping Women – A Conversation

    I believe it was my recent post Seeing Red Over Shades of Sexism which removed the rose-colored glasses I have worn for so many years.…

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  • Love at First Byte

    Love at First Byte

    I will always remember my first home computer.  It was an AST; an acronym for the company’s three founders Albert, Safi and Thomas who were…

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  • Seeing Red Over Shades of Sexism

    I’m fired up. In one week, I’ve been confronted with two examples of the tiresome old issue of sexism.  The first is more food for…

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