Birthdays.  We celebrate them, we avoid them, we call them “just another day,” we make surprise parties for others over them.   We gush over birthday cards and make grand wish lists.  We are gaga over birthdays.
Gaga, that is, until we reach “that certain age” and birthdays are no longer birthdays, but rather, anniversaries of some [...]

I have no pictures today.  No snappy words.  Nothing.
Instead, my heart is with the Haitians right now and especially with those who are still trapped inside what used to be a home or school or office or hospital.  There is not much time left for so many, many people … and it is with those [...]

A backyard vegetable garden is a thing to behold!  Fluttering in the breeze, its growing leaves coloring the ground in shades of green and purple, red, yellow and orange.  It is promise of tastes to come — a thing of growing hope.
A winter garden is quiet, sedate.  It is like a sedentary grown-up, compared to [...]

Here is how I walk:  left leg, right leg, heel-toe, heel-toe, arms swinging front-to-back, hips swinging side-to-side.  I pay attention to the business of my legs, how my feet strike the ground, the sturdiness of my ankles, the alignment of my knees.
My legs are mostly good at walking, except for stairs and the occasional curb, [...]