Green (And not the Eco Kind)

This morning I received an email from a girlfriend who had caught wind of the Tour de Word my writer friend Maya Stein is planning. Maya is going on the road — taking a cross-country trip to meet her Ten Line Tuesdayreaders and write/collect ten-line...

A Wider Perspective

I can’t remember who sent me this link, but I suspect it was my friend Suki, who often stumbles across fascinating things to celebrate in life. Anyway, I LOVE this collection of photographs by Andy Freeberg called Guardians of Russian Art Museums. It...

Say Cheese!

This past weekend some family members and I were walking in the middle of the street because we could. It was something called “Sunday Streets”here in San Francisco and this is what happens: the city blocks off a bunch of streets in a particular...

Falling in Love with Love

Tonight I was listening to the radio call-in show, Open Air with Cheri Huberand was so struck by one of the conversations Cheri had with a caller. The topic was “falling in love with love.” The way I heard this was that instead of falling in love with...

Hula-Hoopla

I’m visiting family in a small town in Ohio. My beau and I stopped at one of the many dollar stores to pick up some badminton racquets. At the front of the store was a big bin of hula hoops. There were big hoops and little hoops. Striped hoops and shimmery...