The launching of a ship, the start of each new voyage or the first step of an adventure, begins with an idea, dream, wish, or plan. No...

Each year during the holidays, my daughters and I watch Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings films as a binge-marathon. It might seem...

WARNING: If you never experience stress during the holiday season, never feel stretched to your limit by the end of December; if you sail...

I just spent three out of the last five weekends helping my daughter move back to Sacramento. Let me just say I'm exhausted. She lived on...

I had hoped that this summer, the world would calm down. Nope. For me, this has been a summer of deep joy and desolate disappointment....

In the film The Wizard of Oz, the good witch Glinda tells Dorothy that she had the power to go home all along. It was within her all the...

This week, on Saturday, it's the official arrival of Spring! Hail and well met, after a dark and difficult winter. Throughout winter,...

Happy International Women's Day! This year's theme is Challenging Inequity. Well, that is a timely topic considering the Pandemic has...

It’s been nearly a year since we here in CA went into our first Covid-19 lockdown. Wow, what a year. I'm not going to recap all the...

How are you sleeping? My sleep this week has been memorable. Overflowing with dreams of fantastic creatures, impossible places, and deep...

When my brothers and I were young, our Mom would make us Christmas Candles. It was a white taper that she marked with 24 horizontal...

In a year like 2020, the holiday season could be one of a few things, a terrific distraction, a welcome refuge, a massive disappointment,...