Reflections on my second year in Colorado

Rent the convertible, eat that delicious high calorie lunch, wear your bikini without waiting for six pack abs, go to Paris, make love on a sunny Monday afternoon, drink that fancy wine and use the crystal glasses while you do so. Wear… Read full post »

speak/spÄ“k/ 

Verb:

1.       Say something in order to convey information, an opinion, or a feeling.

2.       Have a conversation: "I'll speak to him if he calls". 

My mother is… Read full post »

“Only one way to get there; you gotta get a little mud on your tires.” – Brad Paisley

I like men who wear jeans and white shirts and who smell like soap, not perfume, and it’s okay if they wear running shoes when they run, but not on a date. I… Read full post »

New York is a marvelous place, and even though I would not want to live here, I am grateful for it’s existence, it’s ‘don’t ‘f’ with me’ attitude and endless array of interesting human beings. Today when I walked to and from my meeting in SoHo, I heard more f… Read full post »

“Writers are people for whom writing is more difficult than everyone else.” – Dennis Palumbo

Writing can be a lonely job and the task of putting your words to paper is exhausting, as well.  There are those who mistakenly think we writers write because it comes na… Read full post »

I’ve been in my new home for almost five months now and every day is a new adventure for both my soul and my physical being.  The soil beneath my feet when I walk the trails at Chautauqua has become familiar and I have made peace with the things I have had to/… Read full post »

Last July I saw my brother running on top of a snowfield in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, northwest of Boulder, Colorado. His smile was broad and his towheaded little body was made up of awkward angles, a trademark of many young boys around nine. His face reflected the carefree wonder and… Read full post »

I’ve been single for five years now after a marriage that lasted 18 years.  I say lasted, because the reality is it lurched, chugged and then stalled out, and never made it across the finish line but instead concluded in divorce. 

I love men.  Truly.  Two of my absolutely c… Read full post »

A title in today’s (Thursday, 9/16) Salon reads “Why are so many seniors getting STD’s,” and when read it, I found it was about people over 45.  My Facebook page invites me to meet seniors in my area, or ‘men over 50.’  AARP publications get tossed in the… Read full post »

First you cry.  I believe Betty Rollin made this comment after discovering she had breast cancer, and part of me hesitates to say this since the tears I am talking about are not related to life or death issues.

But the truth remains, first you cry.

I don’t know… Read full post »

It’s the damn Tarzan song that makes my eyes finally fill up.  You know the one, “You’ll be in my heart,” with the line that always gets me “just look over your shoulder.”  Oh man.  I remember the first time that song made me cry.  I was newly s/… Read full post »