The Reflective Season

Where I live, we’ve hit the time of year when nights are long and days are all to brief. And in Ohio, the sun doesn’t shine often enough to suit me. A friend invited me to go see her on the Gulf of America and I’m thinking about how great that could be. My best…

Are You on the Right Path?

In another lifetime, you would have found me meandering around art shows perusing paintings, admiring pottery and wishing I had enough money to buy the whole collection of metal wind sculptures. To say I was immersed in art was a vast understatement. For years I drew and painted and sculpted and threw pots. My passion…

Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?

I’m sitting on the couch with my then-boyfriend on New Year’s Eve. We are with his mother a petite and loving woman who I respect and trust. Someone mentions my eighteenth birthday which is about a week away and right then, I get smacked with a realization: I have no life plan. People considered me…