A shiny surface attracts my attention. Now that I am  face-to-face, eyeball-to-eyeball, mano a mano ... do I like what I see? Is it a ...
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I have often imagined taking to the air, gliding on high, suspended in flight. What whimsy, all that dipping and fluttering… downright thrilling! On the ...
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Who decided that our next chapter needed to come with a whole other “to-do” list? I don’t know about you, but I have had enough ...
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I come from a letter-writing, pen-to-paper, typewriter-tapping family. I seem to have inherited both the need to express myself as well as all the lovely... ...
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I am flaxen-haired. Well… at least I used to be (<-click). I spent years, and a shitload of moolah, making sure it remained some version ...
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I have long wrestled with how to label my own aging. When I first began writing, I adopted the phrase "Reluctant Ager". I thought it ...
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For much of my 72 years, I’ve existed in a world that is permanently set to ‘soft focus’. Oh how often I've dreamed of what ...
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My to-do list is a morning masterpiece of grandiose goals, earnest aspirations, and committed determination. At the same time, my duvet is a masterpiece of ...
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There is a specific kind of magic that only happens when the lights go down, the chatter dies out, and the only thing left is ...
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I was scheduled to meet my date at 2pm on a biting Tuesday afternoon. Naturally, the nerves were kicking in, as this was to be ...
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It’s that time again… time to welcome a new year after all the hoopla of champagne toasts, a sloshed Andy Cohen, and the always hilariously ...
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