Listening is not a spectator sport

Listening is not a spectator sport

Houseguests. Like regrets, we’ve had a few… too many. So many that the accumulative time exceeds three years since we moved to CA. in 1979. There’s a near-universal theme to the visits in the past dozen years: the guests expect that we will squire...
School’s Out

School’s Out

Recently I voiced a line in my writers’ group that astonished me in its insightful clarity: “I colored between the lines for twelve years because my father was the principal of the school I attended. (wait there’s more: I must embellish and  amend...
Pink vs. Blue Sweetener

Pink vs. Blue Sweetener

Look at the sweetener array. I paused each time I opened the kitchen cupboard when visiting my parents’ home in Indiana. Confronted with choices before I’d sipped the coffee in my mug…yikes! Confusion. Complications. All I wanted was to get my day...