I love guitars. And I really love a good guitar solo. In the history of recorded music there are so many good ones. We could argue...
I’ve been studying cooking for a few years with Chef Bernard Guillas of the Marine Room in La Jolla. When he isn’t running a group of...
My 90-year-old dad is in hospice care. He stopped eating. He says he doesn’t remember how to chew. The IV drip administers hydration, nutrition, and morphine...
In summer we are drawn upward like ripening corn, feeling ourselves expanding, reaching, and unfurling into shapes our winter gestation and springtime birthing only imagined. If...
Nothing interferes with our peace of mind more than anxiety. Anxiety is our ever-present friend, stealing our joy, hampering our relationships, clouding our judgment, and wasting...
A stage is a strange vantage point from which to see the world — all of those faces looking up at you, waiting for the magic...
Since the invention of language, poets and writers have strained every linguistic fiber and stretched every metaphoric muscle to celebrate the magic of spring. Songs have...
When a fledgling eagle gets a little too big for the nest and the time has come for him to fly away and live on his...
At big family gatherings Aunt Sally always prepared a ham. As her older sisters watched, she would carefully cut a large chunk off the end of...
