Happy Summer, friends! As threatened, I’m continuing my occasional series on adult friendships. I forget where I heard these three essential friendship elements: frequency, proximity, and vulnerability. But I’ve been [...]
Guess what? I’m going to talk about graduation again! We had my daughter’s graduation open house last weekend. It poured rain, we all crowded around the kitchen island, and I [...]
I’m inspired by Bill Gates’ announcement that his foundation will shut its doors in 20 years. He says, “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold [...]
My daughter graduates from high school in two weeks, and we take her to college in a couple months. Having gone through this once with my son, I thought I [...]
I’m on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Provincetown, Massachusetts this week. My aunt has been visiting, working, or seasonally living here for 50 years, and for the last decade has been [...]
I took a photo of a painting I saw last week that said, “Life is a full-time job.” Amen to that! Lately, it has taken most of my energy just [...]
I wrote last week about feeling afraid and got responses from several of you, thanking me for acknowledging and even welcoming fear instead of spouting platitudes about how we should [...]
I’ve been afraid a lot lately. Afraid of the avian flu. Afraid that we get closer every day to climate collapse. Afraid for federal workers losing their jobs, what that [...]
If I want to get some animated conversation this time of year, I can ask “How do you feel about Valentines Day?” I usually get that it’s been commercialized, and [...]
If you read these newsletters or are around me for more than a few hours, you’re bound to hear me talk about taking silent retreats. Getting away to hear the [...]