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t’s a new year: 2018. We didn’t die before we got old, as Roger Daltry famously sang. We’re here and now, craving recollection, connection, life meanings that resonate like middle C.
Red vs White for Christmas Past, Present, and Future
I have a highly quotable friend. So, full disclosure, this is a phrase of his – “Drink red to be contemplative: white to get wild.”
Life as a Miracle: Lean on Me
To serve a loved one as needed. Life as a Miracle seldom gets better than that.
Wear the pearls, use the good silver –
"Wear the pearls, use the good silver, don't wait for a rainy day." Words my mother said as she cruised the displayed wedding gifts at our reception. We married in the living room of my parents' home, with the reception in the dining room, where a sliding patio door...
Keeping up with the Jones – who dat?
Tis the season to be jolly. Tis the season to shop.
Life as a Miracle: Sunday Safari 1991
For two dozen years, Soroptimists, an international service organization for women, consumed my spare time. Most often it was a good thing, a boon to my life. Because I was in solo private practice, and did not earn my speech-language pathology degree in this state, I...
Life as a Miracle: Several Spontaneous Remarks
Remarks to treasure, spontaneous, unbidden, unaffectedly spoke, uncontrived. Do you have any that linger, locked into memory, to brighten your life?
Life as a Miracle: Rosalinda and Cindy
Though Rosalinda was a career woman whose work seldom took her to Irvine – she was just across town and rushed to hold my hand. And Cindy, who had just ended her career, lived down the block.
Life as a Miracle: Go West, Young Woman
Go west, young woman, to find yourself. It was a mantra of the ’60s’, do she did…
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