Living Life as a Miracle: Furniture Shopping

Living Life as a Miracle: Furniture Shopping

If you’ve followed this blog – or if you know him – my husband is a mighty contemplative man. He thrives on research and comparison shopping. He seldom does anything fast. Except fall in love with me, he says with an ear-to-ear grin. Several years...
Girl Games

Girl Games

“Let’s you and me hate her” was the name I gave the rapport-building game that I experienced in 1997. It’s power play when there are three girls, each seeking pecking order by defame. I was entrapped – for a short while – until I...

Living Life as a Miracle at a Quarter to Three

My homework done, I was listening to WLS, as legendary a radio station in Chicago and its surrounds as KMET was in LA. Dick Biondi was the dee jay, the musical tour guide. There was only one radio in our country house, so I couldn’t sequester in my room to...
God’s Perfect Timing

God’s Perfect Timing

Paper covers rock covers scissors… It is a childhood game On Sunday, God played it, too And allowed me to take this photo Coastal fog covered moon covered sun The eclipse scene in southern California Look with your eye, blink, exclaim, And run to get your camera...
Women and Mankind

Women and Mankind

Why is it that Women have the Wo(e) of Men and Men have the Kind? A friend’s recent lament about her loving husband of 25 years will serve as example: She and I are Playmates. Not Hugh Hefner’s brand, though we could have been in our prime, if only...
Lucky

Lucky

  “DO YOU FEEL LUCKY? It’s the line from a classic movie which, because Larry and I were dating, I went to see, despite the fact that I hate violence – verbal or physical – and that movie had plenty of both. I kept my eyes firmly shut much...