“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” When I became pregnant I knew that one of the values I would immediately try to pass onto my child was the love and appreciation of travel. In psychology, we measure […]
This might seem weird to some. Bit April fool’s day makes me a little sad. It’s a day of jokes and I love pranks. Pulled one off last week on a colleague to great delight. I got that love of pranks from my mother. She took great pleasure […]
In New Yok, you see everything. You can experience almost everything. And, with enough money you can certainly buy pretty much anything. Thus, when walking the city streets of New York, you have to be prepared for just about everything and anything. Yup. The other morning it looked […]
Winter fur is dropping Spilling all over the floor The collar holding up a head ready to roll Instability and shakiness propping the legs Time to shed that winter coat Face what is to come
Freedom. It’s a beautiful word. A most wondrous concept. An aspiration. Not only at the governmental level but in our own day-to-day lives. We live with fears that keep us bound. We live within constraints, that we have often set ourselves. While at the Brooklyn zoo -tiny but […]
Imagine this scenario. Someone is leaning over a toilet throwing up. One person pulls that person’s hair back and says it’ll be ok. Another person stands back perplexed trying to figure out what caused the stomach problem. While a third person goes back to look for the purse […]
I personally have been experiencing crazy, lucid, vivid dreams this past year. It’s my understanding that many others have as well. Probably everyone at this point. We went through a pandemic that seemed never-ending. Well, we are still in the midst of a pandemic. But hope is in […]
I don’t drive. Never driven. Technically don’t own a car. Yet, I keep getting all those car insurance scam calls. We need someone to stop these immediately. Whatever happened to the Do not call list? But I digress. I don’t own a car. I’ve never placed a bumper […]
Some people can’t stand to lose. I mean, losing is not fun. We get that. But one can try and have fun in the process. Some people make everything a game – a twisted game of power. Those are people to avoid. And, to those people I tell […]
I have never been to a gender reveal party. Nor do I really care to unless there’s either a lot of mojitos or mai tais. If it is a boy serve up the mojitos. If it’s a girl serve up the maitais. Just go with it. Gender reveal […]