My son lives in Malibu. I know, tough right? I sent him to college in California knowing in my mother’s heart I’d never get him back. But no matter how hard I hold on to what I know, life marches [Read more...]
We looked like a bunch of goofies trading paper kiddie glasses around the semi-circle. Standing on the packed red earth at a massive new construction site, we gathered curious. Two designers, two [Read more...]
The young bedouin boy, scrambled across the rocky cliff face minding his own business, while searching for his goat. What he discovered in 1947 would rock the modern world of biblical scholars as one [Read more...]
It stares sour. Recriminations whisper ire. My curly handwriting blurs before my eyes and dances death’s dirge. Months have marched steadily past, Ushering in defeat that taunts like a school yard [Read more...]
My friend emphatically proclaimed, “ You just ruined my day.” Her sharp intake of breath and wild eyes should have warned me. I absolutely didn’t mean to, I just made the statement, “It’s three [Read more...]
As I drape their garlands, and trim their trees with all sorts of baubles and sparkles and ribbons and shine, I turn my phone soft to soothing Jazz Christmas tunes and hum along. “It’s that time of [Read more...]
It reminded me of my first nervous day of seventh grade, a new school, seas of strangers congregated in pods, then swarmed with haste less the bell catch them late. Shy and unsure, I kept to myself, [Read more...]
A small crowd huddled as cameras snapped. Smiles and laughs tinkled like chimes in the breeze. Curious, I halted my blissful meandering and moved near. Could it be what I think it is? [Read more...]
The city lights winked and twinkled magic as my son and I strolled giddy down a quiet Paris boulevard. On a satisfied high, full from a repast of Sea Bass swimming in a perfectly infused sauce, I [Read more...]
Snug as a bug in a rug. The rhyme whispered a familiar cadence in my head as I witnessed the same ingenuity over and over. Fascinated, I determined to get a close-up photograph. Blurry…oops she [Read more...]