When you have more than one child the youngest, no matter how old they are, is doomed to be the baby forever. They can’t help it and neither can you. It’s not that they aren’t both loved, nurtured, cared for and doted on it’s just that one is the little one, the young one, the…
I have become increasingly confused over the last few years about what exactly the word “share” means. For many years I thought the word “share” meant to partition something, to divide it up, or to take turns in using something. If I were to share a car, for instance, it would mean that sometimes I…
Observations from my most recent business trip… Here is what my day is like so far: up at 8 in the morning except my body thinks it’s 5 because I have only been where I am for thirty-six hours. Meetings for seven hours where I have to be alert, creative, thoughtful and demanding, also nice…
Looking for an excuse to head out to Tomales Bay? Join me along with other authors reading our True Animal Stories! Tuesday July 29th at the Inverness Library. 6:30 refreshments/music, 7pm stories. FREE. I will be reading a piece I call Living with Animals, and will of course have copies of ’til now available to…
Once upon a time there was a simple blazer, navy blue with a classic mother-of –pearl button, nothing special to look at, just the classic blue jacket of business dress everywhere. But this blazer had a magic power, anyone who put it on was instantly transformed into an appropriately dressed professional whatever the situation and…
…by being married for almost twenty years. I get a annoyed by the surfeit of ‘top ten’ blog posts on lessons for marriage from the first year. I’m not suggesting you can’t learn anything in your first year being married, but if you take your advice from just the first year you are going to…
Different animals seem to have different magic about them. There are of course the unique traits of individuals and breeds but if you can generalize about animal magic certain species seem to be better at certain things than others. Dogs, I believe, are particularly good at love magic. One of my dogs has love power…
It’s not politically correct to question “science,” you either believe science or you think the world is 3,000 years old and people used to ride dinosaurs. I feel like maybe it isn’t quite that black and white, science after all is about asking questions and making observations. Sometimes, when you have observed something happen a particular…
I am fluent in one language. Obviously that makes it slightly harder to travel to countries where my language is not the language, but thanks to the enormity of influence that is and has been English speaking countries it doesn’t present too much of a problem. I’m not saying that my mono-lingual state is okay or acceptable,…
I have a habit of biting the inside of my cheeks when I am contemplative. I will find myself sitting in my office, working out some kind of issue and will notice that I have sucked in my cheeks and am holding them with my teeth. I do that a lot when I am writing…
Faith Works 