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I’m a right-brained human in a left-brained world. And I fear I’m part of a dying breed. Or at least of a group of humans whose voices are being overridden by the sounds of digitization. Why do I think this? Because of logic. It’s everywhere. We used to ask about the essence of things: what is the essence of the story? What is the essence of the problem? What is the essence of the situation? Now we ask, what’s the bottom line? What is our endpoint? What is the loss vs benefit

I have so many friends and family members who love to travel. They go to many wonderful destinations: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, Patagonia, Iceland. Others have homes in other countries where they go and live as if they’ve been locals in these far-off places all their lives. And then there’s me. I can barely get around a corner without getting lost. I almost had a panic attack in the TSA of my small (I mean REALLY small) home airport because I was made to stand off to th

Have you ever been part of one of those ice-breaker games where someone says, “If you could be an animal, what would you be?” Or maybe it...

Sweet Peas. So lovely; thanks to Henry Eckford, a gardener in the 1800s, we have a plethora of colors and strains to pick from. I’ve been...

Well, we all know that feeling ~ the morning after the big celebration, the big event, the big whatever. And you lay there, staring at...

It took me a long time to master chopsticks. Don’t ask me why. For years I could never get those sleek, slightly tapered implements to...

I had to take my cat, Penny, to the vet for a vaccine. Such a simple task you might think. If it were a dog, I could pull out the leash...

I don’t know that much about chameleons, but I’ve learned that they primarily change color to indicate emotion, although they are also...

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