The Guilt Free Life

Let’s say someone breaks into your house while you’re at work. They take your laptop, some jewelry, the money from the jar in your closet. You come home, and find your possessions missing, and a hundred different, NEW, thoughts race through your mind: Are they still here? Are they coming back? What’s this world coming to? Why me?

For someone who writes about loss, I sure do have a lot of experience with it. Today, my first book was published. Although I am ecstatic to be over the first hurdle that writers encounter, I feel a slight sense of dread nonetheless. It isn’t even listed in Amazon yet, but [...]

There are some people who are perfectly comfortable being a wallflower. They will attend a party, sit against the wall, and observe those in the center of the room as they flit and mingle, gracefully (or maybe not so gracefully) traipsing from one conversation to another, drink in hand. And then there are [...]

A few days after Hurricane Katrina, I went through the mess that was my home. The lawn mower was in the family room, and my coffee table books lay swollen in my flower garden. Everything had been washed in a murky brown, silty sludge, and lay everywhere growing multicolored mold.
There was of course, [...]