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  • Remembering Friends

    Remembering Friends

    Didn’t I just write that I was taking a summer sabbatical? I did. But I also included a caveat that if there was a story which wouldn’t keep quiet in my head, I would post it. As it turns out, it is literally something which can’t keep quiet because it is a podcast. Today, the…

  • Talking Intuition with D.G. Kaye

    Talking Intuition with D.G. Kaye

    I just finished a book where one detective asks another about a suspect. “What does your gut tell you?” A few days later, I’m watched a show where a woman is upset when she hears her friend’s boyfriend stole some jewelry. “I knew something was off with him all along.” They are both referring to…

  • Rallying to Write.. And What Happened

    Rallying to Write.. And What Happened

    Last June was a busy month for me. I had my port-a-cath surgically removed; we drove to the other side of the state to spend several days with family and I had an emotional visit with my mom as she had deteriorated so much since my last visit. She could not speak, except a loud…

  • There’s More to the Story

    There’s More to the Story

    My family will gather soon to say goodbye to my mom. It has been a month now since she passed, which is impossible to believe. I looked back at my blog and counted 40 posts written about her and the challenges of how to help an aging parent. Documenting the many situations and solutions was…

  • Whatever Happened To…

    Whatever Happened To…

    Once a year, on a date which cleverly (!) coincides with my WordPress anniversary, I like to provide updates on some of the stories I’ve shared over the last 365 days.  Sometimes, there are worthy follow-ups. I am sharing them in no particular order. Last July, I had shared the story of Mary, my hair…

  • 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. It’s not that I was unaware sexism existed, but I had always lived in a paradox. On one hand, I lay inside a cocoon, woven around me as early as…

  • 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 thought but the second is a real experience which happened last week. Readers may have heard by now that Mars Incorporated., the parent company for the M&M candy brand is…

  • A Conversation with Sharon Marchisello

    A Conversation with Sharon Marchisello

    In early 2000, author Sharon Marchisello’s mother, Lolita, seemed to understand that something was different and once told her daughter “Losing your mind is a terrible thing.” She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and the whole family was learning how to adjust to life with a loved one who was quickly changing. Years later, with…

  • Covid Conversations From Italy

    Covid Conversations From Italy

    When early stories of a new virus were breaking last February into March, I remember a nursing home being hit hard in Washington State and I remember people being stuck on cruise ships around the world because no country wanted to give them port of entry. But what resonated with me the most at that…