When I was a girl in Minnesota, my mother and three aunts started a round robin letter. Once a month or so, Mom would receive a fat envelope filled with letters from each of her best friends: her sisters-in-law, Betty, Grace and Dixie. She would read all the letters to find out what was going [...]

My Aortal site of the week, which I didn’t realize until now I was supposed to say, is a nifty diary by a cool co-ed, a pretty young thing: The Lavender Kitchen… In the referral stats: Pretty+young+thing Ew. Okay, only old men would look for a “pretty young thing.” Guys my age don’t say that. [...]

Okay, so I’m catching up on my reading, and this is wonderful.

Childhood presents each of us with a puzzle that we spend the rest of our lives trying to solve.

Yoga was very difficult today. My mind and body resisted from the beginning – when I had a long ‘talk’ with myself via my morning pages and finally convinced myself that there was no way out: 8:45 am – Slept too late – now the temptation not to do yoga is very strong. It’s an [...]