I made a greeting card this week. When I create something – anything – I am like a little kid, fully absorbed in the act of expression. Of course, I wander between that silent overconfidence of the novice, thinking my creation is the greatest thing that has ever been born…

Little over a week ago, I wrote a piece about how when we promote people (Kavanaugh) within a context that evades truth (think Judiciary Committee Hearings, the FBI Investigation), we destroy not just democracy and the rule of law, but truth and our shared basis for reality. …

Am I the only one feeling like the most fundamental thing we lost last weekend with the ascension of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, was our grip on reality and the meaning of truth and decency? I followed this story with a kind of obsession that is rare for…

Just so happens, I spent the International Day of Peace (September 21) traveling across the Balkans: from Belgrade, through Croatia, to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and back to Croatia to see its famed shoreline. It was a breathtaking drive with varied landscapes from farmland to pine forest, from meadow lands to…

a fiction story about the moment, and choices we have and don’t have… We all know that nowadays, malls have replaced drawing rooms and public parks as places to meet up or get out. Great Houses of Commerce, they pass off as public spaces, with their entertainment centers full of…

This is a writing exercise: literally “publish something that’s so personal it makes you want to vomit…” I remember a time in my life when I could became a mess for days at a time. I remember when I would sit for hours and cry, for no clear reason. Sometimes…

I stumbled into the 2018 World Cup quite by accident. Though I never much developed the spectator habit, I have been playing football for nearly 40 years now. Even though I’m an American and a woman. A Love Affair In the case of sports, there is compelling evidence that this…

Pain is inevitable in life. Suffering is optional. -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar We all experience loss in life, and when it comes, it hurts. How much we are impacted by that loss is proportional to the importance we place on the subject of our loss. Losing your Saturday afternoon football…

For a drop to exist it has to leave the ocean. But ultimately wherever the drop lands, it returns to the ocean. Maybe it falls to the sand, where it merges, and makes it’s way slowly back to the sea. Or it may separate to even smaller elements, to salt…