To Travel or Not To Travel?

April 22, 2026.Reading time 1 minute.

Friends are talking about summer plans for travel. It’s that time of the year. Ric and I exchange knowing glances. Travel is likely not in our future. The Winter seems to have taken a toll on my mobility. I’ve been doing restorative yoga, and taking small walks to encourage my legs but every effort is […]

Life As An Obstacle

April 1, 2026.Reading time 1 minute.

I am that slow moving old woman that everyone dreads getting behind in line. I block the sidewalk with my slow gait and mobility stroller. I take extra long sorting out my money and purse. Nothing I do is done is haste. It’s not a position I ever aspired to. I was always that fast […]

Evening Visitor

March 18, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Come! Come!” I heard our Ukrainian guest calling frantically to the dog who was doing his pre-bedtime duty. Dog safely bundled in her arms, she struggled to tell me there was an animal in the yard, she could not name. An opossum. Slow, with a rather frightening face, made it’s way over the bank at […]

Build It And They Will Come?

March 11, 2026.Reading time 1 minute.

Forty years ago, I began my exploration into interpreting the messages of dreams. I needed one more credit to complete my University degree and the one I wanted was full, so a friend recommended a Religious Studies course offered through an affiliate college: Dreams, Visions, and God.It was life altering! I would go on to […]

Auspicious Visitor

March 4, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Missing the ability to take my camera out for a drive. Imagine how thrilled I was when nature came to me in the form of this Cooper’s Hawk.

Fallout from War: a Child’s View

February 25, 2026.Reading time 5 minutes.

February 22, 2022, Vasylisa celebrated her ninth birthday with her family and friends in their home in Kiev. She was ecstatic, as there amongst her birthday gifts sat the much-asked-for Barbie dream house. I doubt she slept that night with all the excitement. She wouldn’t sleep the next night either. At 4:00 am on the […]

Spring is a Great Time to Move

February 18, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Currently obsessed with house hunting shows, especially international and waterfront locations. It’s not that we’re thinking of moving any time soon, but you never know. Should we happen to win a lottery, I’ll be prepared. Looking at real estate always reminds me of my parents, who moved house every two years. My mother said it […]

Still Growing

February 10, 2026.Reading time 1 minute.

People pleasing is a trauma response. This statement made me stop and pause. I’ve been on a mission lately to break out of the cycle of people pleasing, and this is one revelation that I somehow missed. “It’s part of fawning,” my therapist explains. I hadn’t heard of that either. Apparently, flight, fight, freeze, or […]

Praying for Peace

February 4, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Continuing with my self-portrait a day project. I start with a blind sketch (looking in a mirror or at a photograph and not the page) and then fill in the rest. While creating this piece, I was thinking of what the world needs now: peace.

Text Don’t Call

January 28, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Watching a true crime episode the other day, and the person of interest ended up being arrested over numerous calls he made to his wife at the time of the victim’s demise. The suspect and his wife swear the calls were made within their own home. He was downstairs and she was up. The detective […]

Sun Certainty

Clouds bundleshift and foldcotton strata Trees huddleconfidence incommunity Emotions stackone on anotherco-mingling hues Beneath layersan eternal glowsun certainty. (First published April 2021. Image my own)

Peachy Keen

Not Everything Is Defined by Age

As a child, I knew no limits, setting out on adventures with never a fear for how I’d find my way back home. Now, nestled in my home, I limit myself to certainties, fearful of risks. Some days, I wonder about that child, and how it would feel to wander freely, and it makes me […]