Even the clearest water seems opaque at great depth.  Joel Agee

Summer is the time to take off from the routine of every day.  Or, at least that’s the picket fence version of life.  It’s the time of long, lazy days where the book you’ve been reading falls off your chest … read more »

Now is the time to be simple.

Don’t let yoursef get swept up in other people’s agendas for you….or in your own ideas of what your life ought to look like.  “Ought” is like “should”.  It renders you out of the present and into judgment or blame or regret or less … read more »

I love parties.  Everything about them.  The planning, the decorating,selecting the music, the menu-making, the invitation—-which is the first phase of setting the stage.  I really get into it. 

One year, I had a brunch.  For the invitation, I used those bacon boxes with the front flap that let’s you peek at the … read more »

Ta-dah.  That would be…….compost.

When I was a kid, my father used to grow the most outrageous bright, red, lip-lickingly juicy tomatoes, along with vivid explosions of hydrangeas and fragrance-laden roses.  When people drove by our house, if my father was in the yard, they would stop to ask his gardening … read more »

No.

That’s the short but definitive answer. 

Sometimes we get that confused. 

 ”Put the oxygen mask over our own noses first”—every time we fly, we are reminded.  I have never known anyone to argue with THAT concept of taking care of yourself first, so you can be clear headed enough to then focus on and … read more »