Can you share a bit about yourself? I have been a daughter, sister, woman, survivor, lover, mother, wife, student and social worker. Then I realized a few years ago, after my last adult child had left home, that I am none of those things. Driven by some unconscious force, I stripped myself naked of all […]
One evening, a Cherokee elder told his grandson about the battle that goes on inside people’s heads. He said, “My son, the battle is between the two ‘wolves’ that live inside us all. One is unhappiness. It is fear, worry, anger, jealousy, sorrow, self-pity, resentment, and inferiority. The other is happiness. It is joy, love, […]
On Saturday I asked Jeff what he intended to do for the rest of the weekend. Generally, when asked this question he responds with, “Dunno, go for an easy ride, get some groceries, read, or watch Sunday Football.” But this day was different. He said, I thought it would be nice to go blackberry picking […]
Have you ever come across someone on the net and wondered “hmmm.. I wonder what they are like? I would LOVE to sit down and have a cup of coffee or glass of wine with this person”? That is exactly how I feel when I read Kaileen Elise’s blog entries from Make Every Day Extraordinary. […]
While in Tofino last weekend, my friends and I discussed life lists or bucket lists or mondo beyondo lists… whatever you call them, we talked about them. Since that conversation my friend Rhiannon has sent all of us her life list via email and others have stared to trickle in. To say that these lists […]
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point […]
I met Bridget in January of 2007 in India, while on a rafting trip on the Siang River with River India. Bridget was one of our fearless river guides. When I met Bridget and got to know her throughout the trip I could not stop thinking about her beauty. Not just her physical beauty but […]
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. – Thomas Jefferson I spent the weekend with the following lovely ladies (Emily, Rhiannon, and Farley). It’s always bittersweet to end a weekend with such amazing women, but all the sweetness comes […]
The first time I heard the term Indian Summer was at my friend Emily Ludden’s house. She and her family owned or rented (can’t remember) the movie “Indian Summer“. I loved that movie. Little did I know that the term Indian Summer actually refers to a late summer, lasting well into the fall. At the […]
Can you share a bit about yourself? (A brief introductory bio) For the second time in my life I am living the immigrant experience; so I think my blood heritage is one of seeker. I was born in Kenya but grew up in London (UK) of Indian parents. My family life was marked by uncertainty […]
