“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.” – George Bernard Shaw I find this quotation recorded in teenage girl bubble letters…
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Baskets of spices arrayed in rich, rainbow tones. Thick tubes of sausages dangling from umbrella rafters. Rattan baskets pressed between arm and hip, bulging with selected produce. Olive oil vats…
It’s been one of those days. I wish it had been overcast, drizzly, and sans a toddler pulling the long-suffering cat around by the tail so that I could have…
I think of myself as an urbanite. My earliest memories include frying an egg on the miraged surface of a Phoenix sidewalk, needing a new Care Bear from the neighborhood…
Everyone should be so lucky to a have a Megan in his or her life. I have a Megan in mine. She’s that friend who is always in the know…
I can’t say I like my hands. I’ve always felt my fingers are too short, wide, and stubby, lacking any element of grace from knuckles to nails. I think of…