Fueling Our Resilience

Seeing the effects of the storm Sandy renewed my interest in resilience, the capacity to make it through ordinary and extraordinary events. Whether it’s something nature dishes out; droughts, flood, or hurricanes, or people caused events; wars, dislocation, or...

Happy Birth Day!

Enter the darkened birthing chamber. Nurses scurry around, a mother wipes her daughter’s brow, step-dad and the doula have cameras at the ready, the baby’s daddy massages and coaches the soon-to-be mom, while she follows the movements springing from her belly with her...

What’s Mine To Do?

With the guests all gone, the dishwasher humming in the background, my son and his girl friend and I stand talking around the kitchen counter. In this time of tremendous transition, according to the Mayan calendar, the ending of a 26,000-year cycle, we discuss the...

Shopping For Fun

Yesterday’s sunshine and mild temperatures were calling me to the park. When the dog heard me mention the words, “walk” and  “park” he jumped from his perch at the window and headed for the front door.  Responding to the contagion of the dog’s enthusiasm, my husband...

Numbers Matter

All the focus on the fact that our calendar hit the recent date, 11.11.11 got me thinking about my own relationship to numbers. Unlike my sister and father, I wasn’t good with numbers.  In fact, I developed a fear of them as my engineer father would quiz me nightly on...

Mission – Grandparenting

So what if my pajamas and items from my make up case and toiletry bag had to made two trips through the airport security scanners in Kansas City.  And so what if the rental car agent didn’t know if the freeway to Nebraska City had re-opened after being flooded a...

TOUGH INTO TRIUMPH

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