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Happy Mother’s Day!
Children are the best gift. I’m honored just to “have” them; they are the best thing I ever “did!” We have a tradition of buying our yearly annuals at a nice local nursery, Hollandia Nursery, as a festive Mother’s Day outing. We have done this for eighteen years at the same place. I always enjoy…
Forsythia is always such a delight to see. I think it was one of the first things my kids could identify out of the car window, since we always enjoyed spotting that luscious color after months of winter. That cadmium yellow can be almost intoxicating after one has been living among muted neutrals! Enjoy the … Read more
There are problems with being overly considerate of others. It can be a real source of misunderstanding. When you defer too much to someone else, they then misread you, and then communication is detrimentally hampered. Here are two examples, one old and one recent, but both ironically classic. When I was growing up, we had … Read more
April Fool’s day is a silly tradition. When not celebrated with the release of a damaging new computer virus or worm, it can be fun. This morning, for example, I was not above waking up my teenage son by abruptly saying it was noon when it wasn’t. It is quite pleasurable to have one day … Read more
This entry is a follow up to yesterdays’ entry on overfishing which you can read here if you missed it. What can be done about it? It turns out there are solutions to overfishing. There is hope if courageous action is taken soon. (All quotes are from The End of The Line by Charles Clover.) … Read more
I promise I won’t be doing this that often. I’m equally proud of all of my wonderful children. It has taken self control not to ramble on here about my son’s recent robotic successes or how great my oldest daughter was the other day as Lady Macbeth. The difference here is that while those accomplishments … Read more
Alexander Graham Bell was attempting to invent a hearing aid. Columbus was trying to get to India. Post-its were born out of glue that didn’t work right. Velcro was invented from pondering annoying burrs stuck to the pants from a walk. Steve Jobs applied what he learned about movement and perception while ballroom dancing to … Read more
Nipping it in the Bud? love an opening bud tentative, unsure is it safe? trust experience: so disappointing, so discouraging or invest in hope: so sanguine, so easily jeopardized, vulnerable and perishable or steel oneself instead: instigating inevitable disillusionment by pushing away – hard fleeing or walled off — disquieted, blighted, to wither alone plagued … Read more
Our family birthday tradition includes my mother’s recipe of cut out cookies in the appropriate digits…
Instead of a formal New Year’s Resolution, I have decided on two words I need to focus on this year: systematic, and streamlining.
Who would have thought a few years ago that we would witness having a black president in our lifetime let alone so soon?
According to a Gallup Poll, 40% of Americans claim that at one time or another they had a physical healing through prayer.
My friend Fred emailed me the following quote from Steven Jobs, chairman of Apple Computer, who two days ago took a leave of absence for health reasons:
Wendy Shalit, author, discusses the contrasts between the sexual repression in the 1960’s with the sexual pressure of today.