If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least befriend a talking dog?
It's that time of year, when we stop and reflect on all the good stuff in our lives. While I'm grateful for my family and friends, the roof over the my head, the food on the table, and my recently restored health, I thought I'd take the time to be thankful for something that mostly... Continue Reading →
I stopped eating grains in June of 2013 to see if I could improve my health by changing my diet. It was my nutritionist's idea and I was finally desperate enough to listen to her, even though grains had been a major part of my diet for decades. I stopped eating oatmeal for breakfast and... Continue Reading →
The first Thanksgiving after my divorce, I wound up at my sister's in-laws' for dinner. Along with their immediate family, they had gathered in other strays like myself, including three people from Britain. There were bird feeders in the backyard, and we talked about the fact that I worked at the Lab of Ornithology at... Continue Reading →
I don't think of my mother as a gardener. To me, she is a planter. The house I grew up in started with an acre of bare dirt on a steep hillside, but Mom changed all that. For years, she bought bare root bushes and trees and planted them everywhere. Our neighbors used to tease... Continue Reading →
I fell in love with Shakespeare's work watching presentations of his plays on TV as a teenager. In 1980, Derek Jacobi played Hamlet and my family taped his performance with our new VCR. I watched that tape over and over, mesmerized by Hamlet's struggle with doubt, by the inevitable destruction of the prince and those... Continue Reading →
