When I look back at my recent posts, I cringe a bit. Who is that needy and fearful person? I don’t believe I am either. I’m not even all that introspective. If you add up the hours I have spent… Read More ›
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Old Dogs…
On any given day, I invent a million excuses not to advance our plans (whatever those plans may be): we can’t leave the kids home alone for too long; we might get sick and not have access to adequate medical… Read More ›
Ready or not…
Last week my daughter, Taylor, messaged me: MOM, I’m not ready for the real world! She loves college life; graduation is a thief sneaking in to steal her dwindling and carefree youth. The real world is a bit like the boogie… Read More ›
Seasons of the City
Living in a small mountain town in Colorado, I tended to measure the seasons to the whims of nature: the bugle of rutting elk; snow blanketing the mountains; hummingbirds flitting past my window; a piping hot sun beaming down from… Read More ›
The Budapest Palace of the Ethnographic Museum
Kossuth Lajos Ter is the center of Budapest and a standing memorial to its turbulent history. Buildings on the square are riddled with bullet holes from the 1956 uprising (or as Hungarians are wont to say, “Revolution”). This part of… Read More ›
The World In Between 