Yesterday

Goodbye student loan

20 years ago this month, my dad asked me to leave the family nest. I was 16, I was full of fire and ambition and I had a plan.

I didn’t really know what I was going to do, exactly. But my plan was to be wildly successful,  have a brilliant career, travel the world and [...]

Sunflower from my garden

I love sunflowers and have been planting them in my garden ever since we moved to the mountains 5 years ago. A neighbor kindly gave me some seeds of a perennial variety and I was anxious to see how they would turn out. I am still completely amazed that one tiny seed can produce so much [...]

We are one.

I’ve been avoiding the news as much as possible.  I find it impossible to watch the death and destruction in Haïti and then see an ad for a luxury car or something.  I was speaking to my mother the other night and she said that my she and my father are overwhelmed with grief and [...]