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At the gym, at the women’s luncheon, hair salon, I’ve had a variant of this conversation often:   A woman in the locker room at the gym is obviously upset, so [...]

   I plunged my hands into the cool water watching the fish swirl away and school in the far side of the big tank.  I was back at the pond store, just like last [...]

  Since I came out as polyamorous I have been getting a lot of questions, so here’s an attempt to answer some of them.   What exactly is polyamory?   [...]

  Motherhood does not define me. There, I’ve said it.  I love my daughter dearly.  She brought new worlds and concepts into my life that I would never have [...]

 I really hate this day because I’m not sure why we need a day to remind us that woman are important. We’re over half the human race. There are almost always more [...]

I’ve gone from 80s & a warm Caribbean Sea to below freezing and snow, from tropics, to the buckle of the Bible Belt, to the East coast, back to the Bible Belt, to upper [...]

The White Rabbit from The Nursery Alice by John Tenniel, Held and digitised by the British Library, and uploaded to Flickr Commons. A higher resolution version may be available [...]

Things I have learned by being this long in the tropics: That it is possible to tan through SPF 100 sunscreen and if you don’t reapply regularly, it’s possible to burn [...]

Beverly K. Sheline August 9, 1947 – January 10, 2015 Kokomo, Indiana Miss Beverly Sheline was an English teacher at my high school. She taught my first creative writing [...]

Listening to Christmas carols and the ocean, as I sit outside and write to the glow of holiday lights. The windows are open behind me so the carols on the blue tooth speaker are [...]