St. Patrick’s Day is coming! Store windows are going green, and it’s not about the environment. Cardboard shamrocks hang in...
At seven a.m. this morning, I switched on my computer to read my email. I checked my bank balance, and...
Mothers’ Day is coming! Advertisements urge us to remember Mom with cards, candy, flowers and gifts. Mother’s Day is the most popular day of the year to dine out! Florists, candy-makers, restaurateurs and retailers have become the beneficiaries of one of the most commercially successful holidays in history. The celebration...
On June 17th, we will celebrate Father’s Day. My relationship with my own Dad wasn’t perfect. Typical of most dads...
A woman emerges from a shell on the beach. Caught up in the bliss of becoming, she spreads her arms...
The writer of one of my favorite love poems, A Birthday, was Christina Rossetti ~ a Victorian spinster. What was it about Victorian spinsters that inclined them toward poetry, and a passionate inner life? Truly, they were singing birds! They sang their hearts out despite the cages in which they...