Category: Family

  •     The better to hear you with, my dear.         White Tail Deer, listening for possible trouble up the hill, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

  •     How lucky to go home to Baltimore and stumble upon the Flower Mart in Mt. Vernon Place, and to spend the afternoon with one of my very favorite people on the planet.   I must be living right.         The Church in Mt. Vernon Place and the people of Baltimore…

  •     Vulnerable we are, like an infant. We need each other's care or we will suffer.             Poem by St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). From the Penguin publication, Love Poems From God, Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West. Copyright © 2002 Daniel Ladinsky and used with his permission…

  •     What I have been trying not to say out loud, is that there are blessings or gifts hidden in tragedies, and these gifts may not be obvious for some time to come, but they are there.   If we can make a commitment not to let the anger and helplessness allow us to…

  •     Wouldn't it be great if, everyday you realized that you are bursting with life?   That the packet of your body is loaded with energy, and beauty and love and trust and an unstoppable urge to be alive and well  and happy?     Watch out world!            …

  •     If someone asked you what the dominant emotion of your childhood was, what would your answer be?   This happened to me and it wasn't a trusted friend or a therapist who posed the question, but someone I cleaned for who could engage me in interesting conversations.   My uninhibited response was, "shame." As…

  •     Miniature daffodils looking all grown up (in close up). Your mother's favorite flower.            

  •   "Mom, that is so cool! How do you do that?"       Free range chicks in Key West.

  •     Three Angels going wild in front of a "green screen", at the Delaware Children's Museum, last June.     Do something wild and crazy in this New Year!   Happy Happy, New Year, Everyone!   And thanks for a great year!         My three favorite young nieces, at the Children's…

  •     If you had a watchdog like that you would sleep like a baby too!   Me, I had to give up coffee for a couple of days and hire a cat!   Happy New Year's Eve, Everyone! Keep safe.   Adios 2012! It has been a very interesting year, indeed!   On with…