June 18, 2025
Shelf Improvement
When’s the last time you organized your linen closet? What might you discover when you do?
Category: Mental Health
June 12, 2025
Nature is Party to All
I thought all of the fields in my beloved farmland were barren. Then I discovered one that was not.
June 11, 2025
Begin Again the Story of Your Life
I look at my worn and weathered journals and wonder: have I learned anything? Have I created anything?
June 3, 2025
Used Up and Spent?
After 10 weeks away, I returned to my beloved farmland. It wasn’t the same. But what wasn’t I seeing?
May 29, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — RESOLVE!
The stages of recovery from a tough surgery take time to go through, but perhaps in the end, you have renewed resolve to move forward.
May 28, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — WORK!
When I thought I needed medication, my physical therapist instead provided motivation.
May 27, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — PLAY!
When chronic pain hits, brain fog descends. What do you do when you can’t concentrate?
May 22, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — BELIEVE!
“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
May 21, 2025
SURGICAL LESSONS — LAUGH!
Laughter is the best medicine . . . unless you’re constipated, or worse, you have to use a medical toilet; or worse — are you kidding me? — there’s nothing worse.