Since the election, I wake up every morning in dread. Poem I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be ...

It's a bit gloomy today, both outside and in. A lot of us are feeling depressed or anxious or just plain Sunday-ness. I don't th...

In case you hadn't heard, California is in a very big drought. We're letting our grass go brown and dead because it's really ...

I was just riffling through a small box, looking for the business card of The Foot Doctor, whose name I can never remember, so that I can...

A reader sent me a lovely email about this blog and about the community that has grown up around it. She is a mother of two children, on...

Crushing Christmas: How to Win Every Argument By Kelly Williams Brown December 24th 2013 5:45 AM Shut down your relatives' p...

If that old photo of me on the board with that cute man riding the waves doesn't cheer you up, then maybe this idle thought that I j...

Every now and then it's fun to see what keywords people use to land on my blog. The page that always gets the most hits is titled ...

In my most recent newsletter from the terrific website epilepsy.com, I read about a study of mothers and their children with epilepsy. Here...

but I'm wishing today that California Governor Jerry Brown hadn't vetoed adult day healthcare legislation. It sounds to me that onc...