Reboot, Rejuvenate, Resurrect

LITTLE DISTRACTIONS   Each morning, when my feet touch the multi-colored rug next to my bed between 4:30 -5:00 AM, I have two goals. The...

DIVINING ROD AND THE DOWSER ( These words are penned in memory of my father who would have turned 115 years old on August 25th ).   Much...

WEB OF LIFE   I read the following quote by Chief Seattle (think Seattle, Washington) recently on a humid cloudy summer day and it...

BIRDWATCHER   I am a bird watcher and fascinated by hummingbirds. Three years ago, my fascination was rewarded with the arrival of 4...

DEER AND WORMS I love the outdoors and gardening. The two blend seamlessly for me each spring as I fill the planters around my home, the...

PARABLE OF THE ORCHID Sitting across from my favorite perch on the porch, is a plant with thick leathery, slightly scarred, gently curved...

NOT MY GIFT I wrote these words in a blog entitled “Wishes” in December 2019. “Painting is not my gift, so the wish was never going to...

HOARDERS One of my favorite authors, Julie Cameron says “God is shorthand for good, orderly direction.” Do you know a hoarder? I have...

WHAT IS TIME? As you might imagine, or maybe you wouldn’t if you had not walked in these shoes, having a diagnosis of cancer in any form,...

YOU CAN HAVE IT In April, my family (biological and chosen) attended the wedding of two beloved chosen family members. It was the best...

FATHERLY ADVICE Upon entering the restaurant, she immediately folded her small brown seven-year-old fingers around the piece of red and...

LOVE PRACTICE The notion of love is never theoretical – love is a practice, sticks in my head and plays in a non-random loop multiple...

A PIECE OF MY MIND I have said it – I have heard it said. In case you are unfamiliar with the saying, it usually implies the intent of an...

OWNERSHIP I write about change and growth more than anything else. I search for different ways to say the same thing repeatedly because I...

ICEBERGS Stay with me because I find them fascinating. Did you know? An iceberg is calved from a glacier, glaciers take thousands of...

RAFIKI Some years ago, my husband and I liberated a few Japanese Maple seedlings that had sprouted from fallen seeds under the tree in my...

LIVE BIG Why live a teeny-tiny life? – doing tiny things with other tiny people -accomplishing the bare minimum if anything at all…simply...