A rambunctious robot was whirring by my driveway when my cell phone rang. The now, routine robots, seemed more commonplace on the sidewalk than a bicycle, and I grabbed my buzzing phone. It was my cardiologist following up. When I explained my symptoms he instructed me to get to the Stanford ER immediately and he […]
Like many of you, I have had some time to rummage through some old boxes in an attempt to organize the disarray in the basement and the closets. I stumbled (literally) upon a carton filled with remnants of my teaching career from ten years ago. What treasures! Tears were streaming down my cheeks as I […]
The cliches, I felt like I had died and gone to heaven, the peace that passes all understanding, and, it blew my mind; all accurately expressed my recent personal spiritual retreat experience. I say “personal,” because it was designed just for me. It was aptly named, Rejuvenate Your Soul, with the masterful Denise Schaad. It […]
Have you heard about the new trend? The one where you don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but you come up with a word that you want to exemplify your year? I kept seeing posts from my “heroes” and “sheroes” where they were claiming their “words” for 2020. I read the posts, and the words, and […]
Anybody that has ever met me even for five minutes has heard me say “oopsy daisy” at least once in the conversation. I have been trying to break myself of the habit, unsuccessfully, since I was a little girl. At 65, I am finally embracing it as part of who I am. My gentle grandmother […]
Five days of my precious holidays were spent at Stanford Hospital. That wasn’t the plan! I was scheduled for a routine heart ablation procedure and was to go home the same day or the next morning. I ended up missing a very important wedding and all the festivities, but…I am grateful to be alive. What […]
Almost 50 years ago when I was sweet 16, I was given a gift of the Daily Word magazine. I was not familiar with it, but it was little and compact and had a short daily affirmation. I started reading it and it has now become a half-a-century habit. Thirty years ago, I added to […]
So, I am posing this question to you…If you could chat with anyone – positively any living person, who would it be? The individual I would choose would be Rita Davenport. For years I wanted to be just like her “when I grew up.” She is a stellar human being and is the greatest speaker […]
This is not intended to be a book review blog, but… I just happened to have read three game-changer books recently that really “spoke” to me in a HUGE way. I wrote about Permission to Mourn by Tom Zuba in my November 1, 2019, blog titled “A New Way to Grieve.” The other 2 […]
A few nights ago, I attended an impressionable speaking event at our neighborhood Eastwest Bookshop. The speaker was a former Carmelite monastic nun for ten years and had written a book titled Love Calls. She was “playful and provocative” and resembled Sally Field in her looks and mannerisms. (Remember Sally in “The Flying Nun?”) […]