“Be wary of stuff. Be careful what you purchase, what you save, what you pack into plastic storage boxes. Stuff can hog-tie your life.” …
Continue Reading about *Letting Go of Stuff 1: Gnashing My Teeth
“Be wary of stuff. Be careful what you purchase, what you save, what you pack into plastic storage boxes. Stuff can hog-tie your life.” …
Continue Reading about *Letting Go of Stuff 1: Gnashing My Teeth
July 27, 2017 in Oregon Today I did something that shocked me. My behavior was reprehensible and, I hope, out of character. I’m only telling it now because it brought something long-buried in me to …
Continue Reading about *Sex Equity: I’m More Than Embarrassed…
Have you had the experience, upon finally closing a book, of being speechless? Or being deeply grateful (and perhaps envious) because someone had both the capacity to think so clearly about a …
Continue Reading about *Books: The Brillance of “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
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“Do you need someone to be the corpse?” I asked the Care-of-the-Body team instructor. “Because if you do, I’ll volunteer. I’d like to doze a bit.” That was hardly an exalted motive, I admit, but it …
Yesterday was a first for me: I experienced an equine-facilitated therapeutic session led by my friends Erin and Wes. I came away from the session in love with two horses: Phoenix, a dark-brown …
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Last night, I got a sad phone call from Kris. My beloved car, Alice, was about to be towed to a salvage yard in the Pasadena CA area, he said. I stayed on the phone a long time with him, talking about …
Continue Reading about Alice the Mazda—at 445,000—Bites the Dust