Dear Dreamers, Erik Erikson says that by your 60’s, you’ve reached generativity mode and I agree: it hits you like a triple espresso. I turned 65, and my slow, post-Covid, [...]
Dear Dreamers, I'm moving next week, so my message will be brief. East Tennessee has been beautiful in every way, and it's hard to leave. Someday I'll write a truly [...]
For your holiday reading I offer not a dream, but a long-ago memory, which in retrospect affected me like a big dream. (Whatever Big Sweetie needs us to find, we [...]
Dear Dreamers – There’s a particular shrub whose blossoms scented the air of earliest summer when as a child, I would immerse myself, bodymindandsoul into the hours-long enthrallment of reading. The [...]
Spring... a walk in the park...birds warbling...dazzling sun on the lake... a delightful toddler with his grandpa… joggers and amblers...a cool breeze...delirious green undergrowth filling the woods...a million wildflowers. Here [...]
I love Lent. Note: nobody ever tried to make me give up chocolate. Rather, Lent always appealed to the adventurer in me: it’s less about self-denial and more about making room, saying [...]
I wanted the T shirt that said, “A Story is the shortest distance between two people” but they were out of my color at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough [...]
A couple of weeks ago, my neighbor was sitting in her front yard when a streak blazed past her. She had the wits – and even the camera - to [...]
