Most carpenters – the smart ones, anyway – follow the adage “measure twice, cut once.” It’s a good one: being cautious, whether when cutting lumber or elsewhere in life, can save heartbreak, wasted time, energy and materials.  Because I tend Continue reading Measure twice→

Earlier this week, the opening sentence in a recent New York Times article caught my eye: “Looking for ways to grow old gracefully?” Well, yes, I thought, I am. I read on. The piece was a compilation of excerpts from Continue reading With grace, or without→

I know spring has arrived, because our cat now spends hours every day in one window or another watching the birds, murmuring to them as they fly about their business. My son regularly welcomes new goat kids and lambs to Continue reading Is it spring?→

T.S. Eliot may have thought of April as the cruelest month, but he also wrote that it breeds “lilacs out of the dead land” and, in my books, nothing that leads to lilacs can be all that cruel. I have Continue reading Finding beauty→