Suprise Me

His cardinal rule: to the outside world we must always present a united front. Read More

I get to drive and carry stuff. Read More

Barbara to Mom: “why doesn’t Tommy have to do this?” Read More

I usually begin my day with a cup of coffee and a microdose of psilocybin. A microdose is defined as 80 micrograms of the carefully grown and prepared mushroom. I also take a dropper full of lion’s mane, a mushroom that, like psilocybin, has restorative properties in the cognitive realm. Eighty micrograms is a holistic… Read More

While I enjoyed talking about eight days of presents, what I didn't talk about was how many of my gifts were practical things, like, oh, socks, for example. Read More

  I have been given such gifts words choke in my throat as I reach, I stretch, bend and shake toward expressing the utter astonishment the deep wonder the overpowering gratitude at this moment I am  awake Read More

How two rock concerts, 30 years apart, illustrate the Circle of Life. Read More

We did not relish listening to praise and platitudes about a woman who was, to put it charitably, hard to get along with. Read More

It took me a while to post about her. Because sometimes when you love someone with such a power, you are doing in silence, without sharing. The most beautiful things in life don’t have a price. We can’t buy them. We can’t see them. It is more an ability to embrace a feeling from the… Read More

Looking outward, unseen and unheard, I take solace knowing that for a while at least, I am safe. Read More