Liz Valencia Ballet Folklorico Dancer I had agreed to go to  Costco  with my new friend, a retired nun, teacher and seamstress. She...

I'm overwhelmed today. I woke up feeling sad. Didn't even have the sleep gone from my eyes and all I wanted to do was cry. Well, cry...

Two more big earthquakes today in Japan , the same area as the one in March.  I am so grateful that Katsumi lives here and not back home in...

Watching this documentary brings up a lot of mixed emotions. On the one hand Colin Beaven ( No Impact Man) appears to go to extremes, tryi...

I live and die; drowning, I burn to death, Seared by the ice and frozen by the fire; Life is as hard as iron, as soft as breath; My joy an...

I thought nothing of it. I didn't even realize he had ordered them. I attend a small clinic associated with Stanford University Medical ...

When my dear friend, Linda, was diagnosed with cancer, she didn't me until close to the end. I recall a few times when she had symptom...

Two young raccoons came into my yard in the light of day while my significant other and I were gardening. Because of a neighbor's dog ...

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and p...

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers is a "creative" non-fiction memoir. The author begins his story as a yo...

What ever happened to happily ever after? That was all hype, like Santa Claus, Leprechauns, Fairies, and all that other bunch of lies that w...

"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationshi...

What happened to me last month: I saw a commercial on TV where AT&T said you don't need a home phone in order to have internet ser...

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which...

~ When Death taps us on the shoulder,  and we cannot run away,  we encounter a 3D vision of life.  When we escape the inevitable,  and retu...