Holidays, Indeed

What to write about. Thanksgiving. A thoughtful Thanksgiving. I could write a poem. What’s a poem to be about? Whats the beginning, middle, the end – the purpose? Who is to read this little snippet of, what? Of INSIGHT and inspiration, a little piece of compassion to lighten your heart. This piece will make you […]

Control. Is It Yours?

Lately I have had a lot of time to think to myself, what with an empty campus and a multitude of encroaching, dark hours each day. Really, I’m always thinking, always attempting to understand my own intuitions.   At this point in my life, I have not yet been completely set loose to take care […]

What Did YOU Learn?

This week I picked my first carrot. I have been eating carrots for years, and my appreciation of their crisp, orange taste undulates as frequently as my mood. This week, I have a particularly impressive love of carrots. I planted this teeny, tiny seed in an eighth of an inch of soil right next to […]

Winter Is Coming

Cold Affects All To my bewilderment, the season is changing. The once hot afternoons have cooled to sixty degrees and comfortable in the sun, and the nights and mornings are a chilling forty degrees at times. It’s a tough clothing switch that is challenging my lifelong ideal of California’s climate –hot and sunny year-round. Just […]