And there it is. At the root of addiction is the need to escape, to not remember, to feel the freedom from emotional and spiritual pain.

Some people thrive within systems. Luckily for them, our lives are constantly lived within one system or another

Bold statement alert: I don't care what you do for a living, being a parent is the hardest job on earth.

When you share your home with cats you give up all hope of having nice things.

Okay, the fascination may have been augmented by the ridiculously cute and smart fella who was doing the talking.

It's hard to write an observational blog when the only thing one is currently observing is herself at her desk, in front of her computer.

It definitely feels like I am waiting for the point. What the heck was 2020 all about because, surely, there is some meaning to find there?

I’ve been faced, in recent weeks, with the challenges of being introverted in an extroverted world

Says the Universe all time, “I got you.”

My great-aunt D was born in 1909. She died 90 years later. She was one of three sisters and two brothers. Her father was a teacher and...

When my son, Meacham, was young (and his sister, Pilar, just a baby), he found himself, inexplicably, living in the same house with a...

Maybe it's because we're in Pride month, June, but I have on my mind the phrase "coming out of the closet" which we know is closely...

This is a photograph of my son, Meacham, as he approaches the Dury Mill Cemetery, in Pas de Calais, France where his namesake, my...

A friend recently shared an Instagram post that spoke of her reawakening into her True Self. I welcomed her home. I know how that feels....

Little-known fact about me: in April of 2018, I suffered a debilitating panic attack on a New York City subway car. I actually love...

I've been on a bender. Not of the alcohol kind. Something far worse, far more insidious. I've been on "social media". Insidious - what a...

Back in the 60s and 70s, when I was just a kid, our rural property was hooked up to a telephone party line. I don't know the science...

Some days, Paul and I are on each other's last nerve. It doesn't help that we are both at an age where we forget things … like entire...

I've stopped beating myself up over the dreaded New Year's Resolutions. Just the word resolution sends shivers up AND down my spine. It...

The Bitter Lately, I've been feeling my age. Middle age. Upper middle age? I've calculated that if I live to around the average ages of...