Now I say to my fear
"Now I say to my fear, ‘Thank you for getting me here, but today I’m doing something important and new, so I’m not going to listen to you.’” -Elizabeth GiIbert,…
Free Clinic Beginnings
Back in ‘the last century’ I was teaching. I promised myself I would be out of Cleveland before I turned 28. In the meantime, I decided to volunteer at the…
Simplify
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.-Henry David Thoreau Taken from…
Is this the morning?
There was never a Sabbath that I didn't walk into my Nashville synagogue and wonder: Is this the morning of an attack? Screenshot I WENT IN ANYWAY: "Courage starts with…
Can Tennessee Lawmakers get “More Stupider”?
April 23 (Reuters) - Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow the state's teachers to carry concealed handguns at school, as protesters yelled their opposition from the…
Unintended Discovery
On my way home from Nashville I took a wrong turn. Turned out to be a 'right' turn for it took me through the neighborhood Hillwood Heights. A sublime ride;…
One Year Ago
March 27, 2023.Six people shot and killed.in a school. Children from The Covenant School form a human chain as they board the bus that will take them to a nearby…
Opium
I have been wearing Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume for over forty years.Contact me with your address and I will send you an Opium-drenched card. GZ was my mother’s interior…
Retirement—What a Worthless Word
“When one door closes another door opens,” Julie Andrew said in The Sound of Music. Actually, Alexander Graham Bell said it first, if you don’t count John the Apostle,1 Helen Keller,2 and Miguel de Cervantes.3 My…
Take the Long Way Home*
I could't get the song to load. You'll have to hum;) Always take the long way home! *Supertramp, 1978.