It’s all in how you look at it. When the world seems to be getting uglier by the minute, I think it’s important to find the beauty.  ...

with meaning. Both in early middle age, she, walking ahead with a dog on a leash, a happy dog on a leash, and he, a few steps back,...

Beautifully quiet. We went away, we escaped from the exhaustion of moving, from the unpacking of endless boxes, from our non-stop life of...

I read it in a book last week and I had to stop and look it up.   It means resembling twilight (before sunrise or after sunset) or active...

I took a kind of mental break. Mental, physical and psychological, to be honest. In a world like our current one, where every day’s news...

Who are your people? Apparently I’m partly Swedish. Not a total surprise. I’m tall, after all, and was blond once upon a time. The...

and I’m just trying to cross the street So, apparently there’s a parade today. A big parade. An expensive parade. A parade that will...

How is that even possible? There’s something about seeing talent, real talent, expressed and shared, nakedly, rawly, generously in...

Last week, somebody asked me,”If someone gave you $10,000,000, what would you do with it?” I’m not a financially wealthy man, not even...

I’m sitting on the second floor balcony. It’s one of those big deep summer porches, at our niece’s and nephew’s getaway house on Tybee...

Many families have a few of these, I’m guessing. Ours were often at the beach and in black and white with crinkled edges, because this...

A flock of cranes is called a siege. Cranes are beautiful, legendary, ancient birds that represent good fortune, longevity, peace and...

This morning my phone let me know I have 23 app updates available. 23. Let that sink in. In what other industry can you sell a product to...

So, here’s another thing they don’t tell you. You’re younger than Springtime and old as the hills and at some  point, when you least...

There comes a time in everyone’s life, I’m guessing, when your points of reference  start to resemble Barbara Stanwyck more than Aimee...

It was a beautiful brush, as brushes go.   About 9 inches long, with a smooth rock maple handle, shining stainless steel ferrule  and...

I was introduced to someone recently at a social thing, here, in this decidedly next-chapter community, and she asked me, as strangers...

Imagine a room full of adult men and women, all wearing business drag – suits with ties. Does anyone actually wear a tie anymore, other...

Artificial Intelligence, as a name, never made sense to me. It’s not artificial, it’s manufactured and as real, on some level, as real...

Sorry I missed last week’s blog. I was traveling...through Instagram. I was just going to check on a couple people’s stories, people that...