Wordless Wednesday 17 Jul 2013 | 04:31 pm

Let the Rain Come Down 15 Jul 2013 | 05:42 pm

I am drinking too much coffee.   Usually it's just a cup a day--that is, if 20 ounces from Dunkin Donuts can be considered a cup.   Saturday and Sunday at home with the Keurig, though?  Different stor...

A Knowing 29 Jun 2013 | 04:34 am

Intuition is...an ability to cut through the thickness of surface reality. Intuition is like a slow motion machine that captures data instantaneously and hits you like a ton of bricks. Intuition is a ...

Tributaries 2 Mar 2013 | 10:46 pm

The film Amour recently won the Oscar for best foreign film.   It so credibly depicts an elderly lady's decline that it often beared reminding that Emannuelle Riva, the 85 year old actress who played ...

In Today's Lies-- 21 Jan 2013 | 07:00 pm

Size doesn't matter. (Right.   Everyone knows it does;  no one likes being in the ocean in a dinghy.  Accept it and move on.) When it comes to lies, though, does size matter?  Size is in the eye of ...

Sex: What's Love Got to Do With it? 16 Jan 2013 | 09:27 am

As confessed in the The Salon article, Did Porn Warp Me Forever?, Isaac Abel's access to and relationship with porn is soooo far removed from coming across (or sneaking into) your daddy's (brothers? u...

Transitions 12 Jul 2012 | 02:26 pm

 "MA! I'M IN INDIA!" he interjected. Fortunately, for purposes of conniption prevention, this was not news. I was glad to be jolted from a mother's worry and transported to traveler's reverie.  I .....

Seeking Solace 22 Mar 2012 | 05:24 pm

The need was immediate, pressing, and specific.  I needed joy.  I reflexively sought it in music, literally by Googling 'Ode to Joy' and listening to a few orchestras' recordings of it.  I love parts ...

The Silence Breaks 2 Feb 2012 | 05:22 pm

I've had a few notions to blog in the past few weeks, but you see what became of that.  Today, though, I'm doing it because, clearly--I need help.  My favorite seven year old asked me to play Scrabble...

Wordless Wednesday 4 Jan 2012 | 08:14 pm