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Early in my 15 years of living in Connecticut I knew no one, and sought companionship and boredom-free living through personal ad dating....

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The headline comes from journalist Warren Berger’s The Book of Beautiful Questions. The question is intended to find out about conflict...

Ingredients: 1 pound bag of these (frozen): A tub of this: “Zhoug (pronounced ZhOOg) is a cilantro-based sauce/condiment I introduced in...

For nearly 40 years I tried to be something I wasn’t. I had the houses, the vacations, the cute boyfriends, the high-paying corporate...

In April 2000 when I embarked on my solo trip around the world, I didn’t arrange to return to my corporate job at the trip’s conclusion...

Vest: $2.99 Cut velvet tunic: $4.99 Striped stretch bell bottoms $4.99 Faux suede slip-ons $7.99 And, supports a good cause.

I’ve read Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by journalist Piers Paul Read four times. 1974 (first read) The year it was published I...

From neck to toe. That’s $25, ya’ll. Yes, the shoes and belt, too. When my father died in 2004, the Salvation Army was a tremendous...

I’ve been riding motorbikes since age 14. Now that I live in Florida I ride full time. People are always asking me, “You only have the...

Every day for two years, I listened to the song Proud, the 2001 worldwide hit by Heather Small and M People. When Heather sang the lyric,...

Another year has come and gone miraculous the speed. The voices told me as a child to “Sow desire’s seed.” I answered, “Yes” but planted...

While browsing an old library issue of The New Yorker Magazine, an advertisement with this poem caught my eye: READ. Read widely,...

A happening unprecedented: I threw myself a birthday party on December 25, 2009. Soak that in for a minute. It’s a few days after...

When I was 32 years old I told a close friend that I wanted to be a professional writer. He said, “If you haven’t done it by now you...

In a June 2020 blog post, I outlined goals for the remainder of 2020. I’m updating how I did here. Books June 2020 goal: Finish and...

I can cook. More often, though, I prefer to assemble. What’s the power in this recipe besides a nifty blogpost headline? · Ridiculously...

Don’t set out to write “The Great [fill in your nationality] Novel” or the “next” [fill in the latest mega best seller] or “like” [fill...

Joy is a conduit for procreative power. Want to write pain-free? Follow joy. For me joy includes the warmth of sun on my skin, its color...