Your Lens Matters

Your Lens Matters

In my experience leaving home gives perspective in a way that staying home never can. Having recently returned from traveling in Spain, I was struck by the difference between the news of violence I’d been absorbing at home about the actions of Catalans to secede from...
The Key is Communication

The Key is Communication

It gives me great pleasure that my son agreed to gift me a guest blog. Adam’s been my writing mentor, and gently broke me of my legalistic writing tendencies to hopefully become that of a more natural storyteller.     Prior to Adam’s departure for the West Coast to...
They Divorced…but We Did Not

They Divorced…but We Did Not

  I recently attended a Celebration of the life of a remarkable neighbor. Realizing that her cancer might keep her from attending her 88th birthday, she’d planned a party which was to be a celebration either with her, or for her and in lieu of a funeral or...
Two Chocolate Pots and One Amazing Chapel

Two Chocolate Pots and One Amazing Chapel

  The current, wonderful Matisse exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts includes paintings, cutouts and sculptures of Henri Matisse, and juxtaposes them with many of the objects he loved, and which inspired his work. Two silver “chocolate pots”, one given...
Sophie’s Unconditional Love Lessons

Sophie’s Unconditional Love Lessons

This past Friday evening our family was filled with gratitude and grief as we laid to rest our much loved Sophie, the English Springer Spaniel pup who worked her way into our hearts and gave us boundless unconditional love during the past 12 ½ years. Many of you knew...
Consent and Congress

Consent and Congress

  We are living in unsettling times, engaged as a country in a relationship where power and its balance is challenged daily. When crafting our Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote that a government “deriv[es] its just power from the consent of...

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