When I don’t get up and start writing or editing as soon as I have finished my first cup of coffee, the rest of the day goes to hell. And Covid co-working may well kill me, or my husband, from the other’s hands. We do not work well together. He is brilliant. I bristle when […]
Women Leaders
As a child in the 1960s, way back last millennium, I did not notice that women leaders were lacking from political offices. By the time I was a teenager a few brave women had stepped forward. I then noticed. Errors of omission are the most difficult ones to spot. I had a lot of difficulty […]
Seriously, Life Gets Weird
I can speak up. We should all speak up and speak out!
Planning 2020 – First Pass
12th Day of Christmas January 6 was not a special day until I became acquainted, as an adult, with the concept of Christmas being a multi-day event. It seemed like the perfect way to defeat the shopping-centered Black Friday kick-off to a consumerist season. Lights go up on 23rd, are turned on on the 24th […]
January Spirals
Bits of this post were originally published in January 2017. January makes me think of spirals. Why? January is traditionally, from the perspective of someone in the northern hemisphere, with an agricultural or pastoral perspective, a month when there is time for thinking, pondering, and philosophizing. In this way it is similar to what earlier […]
Age and Memory
Common knowledge tells us that as we age that we likely will become forgetful. Some fortunate few people remain sharp as a tack as they near their hundredth birthday. These people are lucid and recall life events, places, and people. Types of Cognition and Memory But even so, they are using a type of cognitive […]