Tonight I talked to a friend who is going through a crisis. Her situation is completely out of my own personal experience. And yet something about the conversation felt very familiar. Her pain felt familiar. Her fear. And the question underneath: Why me? As a cancer patient, I was very familiar with this question that most […]
Coming home—the college Christmas migration
I’ve lived in California for a long, long time. Give me a rainstorm, a mudslide, an earthquake–I can handle it. But no snow. According to sophisticated population studies, millions of people actually live in the upper Midwest. And the vast majority of those people, despite the bitter cold and all that snow, manage to work and travel […]
Encounter with the Unknown
For all the time I’ve spent in our nation’s capital–multiple trips to every monument and memorial, it’s hard to believe I missed something. Then again, maybe it’s not a complete surprise that I never saw the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier–when you see this photo from an earlier visit to Washington. For many people like me from the Vietnam […]
Diss Functional Families
I got an email from a friend who said she felt jealous reading my blog because of how warm and wonderful our family Thanksgiving sounded. 5 minutes before I read her message, I saw a copy of a beautful book made by this very same friend for her father’s 85th birthday, filled with quotations from the entire family […]
Food to Live By
Myra and I took her birthday beach walk today, and for the first time, we sat on my bench, watching a beautiful sunset over the ocean. It was magical and sentimental and inspired me to write this about granola. Granola??? I hardly ever ate it, despite being a product of the sixties. Then about ten years ago I […]
Beach Walk
Today is my friend Myra’s birthday. I’m not planning to make a habit of announcing birthdays. It was embarrassing enough on mine. But today is meaningful because Myra and I are taking a walk on the beach. And I feel really lucky about that. Not just lucky that we’re walking on a beach in California while some people are […]
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