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As many times as I’ve heard and sung Morning Has Broken, by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, I’ve always been a little unsure about the last line of the final verse — “Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s recreation of the…

I put myself through the wringer last week. It was totally my choice; I’m not complaining. But, man oh man, it was intense — swinging from confidence to self-doubt, from elation to misery, from calm rationality to harrowing despair, back…

by special guest, Janna Nelson “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi For hate and fear to…

I don’t know exactly how I landed amidst a bunch of negative reviews for a children’s book… It was a couple of weeks ago. I was researching something online, clicking this link and that, and I found myself transported into…

I’ve been reading a strange and stimulating book by Simon Winchester — The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s about two men central to the decades-long writing of…

I wish things would just settle down. Be still for a bit so I could catch my breath. I mean, I enjoy novelty and variety in my life. I don’t mind a little excitement, a little pizzazz. I’ve been known,…

In a novel I just finished reading, a character experiences a case of Stendhal syndrome. I’d never heard of this. Named after a 19th century French travel writer who first described the condition, Stendhal syndrome refers to a complex of…

About fifteen years ago, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, members of my family started gifting me with Wizard of Oz collectibles. For my birthday, my sister sent a Ruby Slipper paperweight, then a Toto figurine.  Mom’s Christmas package included…

A few of weeks ago, my friend Romy told our dance class about a friend of hers who was struggling to find affordable housing. She described the need and some of the obstacles specific to her friend’s situation, tossing it…

For a new product launch in Great Britain, a company commissioned a survey on spontaneity (or lack thereof). They polled over two thousand adults. Most said that there were lots of things they would really like to do, but which…