I just finished reading an article in a July issue of The New Yorker magazine about the medical marijuana industry. Call me naive but I had ...

It's my birthday today and I just read this poem and loved it. I'm not sure if it's "legal" to put it into the blog wi...

The Husband was working tonight so I heated up some leftover chicken noodle soup for Sophie, Henry and Oliver, and the four of us sat at the...

One of my oldest friends offered to take me surfing this morning as a birthday present. Anyone who knows me knows my surfing obsession and t...

It was Sophie's first day back to school after our two week vacation and I dreaded it. She's in the seventh grade at a less-than-des...

This post risks being incredibly cliche, but I'm having a go at it anyway. Henry and I watched the women's Olympic marathon tonight,...

My good friend Limor offered to take me to get a Thai massage today and I reluctantly agreed. I love massages but I've never had a Thai ...

It's so difficult to get a really good photo of Sophie, but I took this one last week in Hilton Head. She generally doesn't respond ...

Has everything already been written about the nightmare of flying commercial? Maybe so, but my trip home from Hilton Head last night is at t...

I just read that line in a poem by Tony Hoagland or I'm paraphrasing it. Loved it. This morning, I took a walk on the beach with my youn...

It's taken me almost two weeks to write it, but my new friend Vicki Forman's (little boy Evan died unexpectedly just before his eigh...

I like to say that there are two things that sustain me. A hodgepodge belief in a Creator and a sense of humor. An ability to see the absurd...

I am in Hilton Head, South Carolina for the next two weeks, visiting my extended family. We all meet here once a year, usually the last week...

When I go more than two weeks or so without Dr. Jin and her needles and Chinese herbs, I can really feel it. I feel it in my bones, I feel i...