Life Thoughts

I've been thinking about empathy. empathy the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another . . .  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empathy…

I have been blessed to live in some beautiful surroundings in middle Tennessee. Once Jesse left for university, Tony converted our barn hayloft into our home, right on the Piney River, 50…

I am a former children’s librarian—and of course a mother. I can’t resist: If you are a new mom, here are my top ten must-have picture books, if you had to choose—which…

. . . wrote parent NMG on Twitter. Her daughter died in the Sandy Hook shooting, December, 2012. "AG, we used to wait for you to come home. Now you…

In my YA novel, (unpublished as of yet) I wrote a scene where I come home to learn that our rabbi and his wife had been beaten by neo-Nazis. I worried…

Cammo and I bonded when she was in that ridiculous cone, recovering from her spaying . Right now she is curled up next to me, our morning routine. She shows…

In the 8 years that I lived in L.A, I fell in love with one house. On a cul-de-sac, it was Hacienda-style, white stucco, ubiquitous red-tiled roof. Besieged by wild…

JH, a resident of Fort Myers Beach, said it “looked like an apocalyptic disaster” when she made her way there after Ian slammed the shore. Homes the storm tore from…

            The brain holds what it wants to hold. Sometimes I even mutter to myself, please save this one. Does anyone else do that?             One of my earliest memories is of the…

Isn't it time for a sexist blog from a woman?Meet Major Johnny Thompson, CO of the Balaclava Company, 5 Battalion,Royal Regiment of Scotland (also an intelligence officer), and the former…