I love to snowshoe in the fields and woods behind my house.

If you grew up in a smoking household back in the 1950s, you probably experimented with cigarettes on the sly.   I know I did, in elementary school.

The bottleneck is always the top of the bottle. 

- Peter Drucker

The message on my door was: “Mrs. Grantham wants biopsy report sent to dermatologist. None in her chart.” 

We have met the enemy...

“There’s no virtue in being old, it just takes a long time.” — Robert A. Heinlein

Recent events and commentary have led me to revisit and reprocess my personal experience of being the target of sexual harassment, something I have not spoken of for a quarter century.

Epictetus (AD 55 - 135) said: "You can't teach a man what he thinks he already knows."

I sigh every time I see the common but sadly truncated quote from Rilke “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” It leaves so much unsaid.

The magic of poetry is that it simultaneously helps us remember what we experience and experience what we remember.