Longing……………
Gretchen Rubin’s new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head…
Class Reunions & Freud
Freud wrote that humans have an unconscious need to repeat early trauma. He named this tendency the repetition…
Attention!
5.27.2023 Attention! If you were to see the bookshelf by my desk, you might think I’m obsessed with…
What Are Your Expectation?
5.20.2023 I pushed the contact number on my cell phone to reach the office of one of the…
A Day in the Life of This Reader
I finished Book I of My Struggle – all 441 pages. This is the first of Karl Ove…
Excitement and Interior Design
Lydia, my oldest granddaughter, works as an interior designer. Because I’ve seen how seriously she takes her work…
Binary Thinking Sneaks In
On March 24, 2023, I drove myself over to the Urbandale Library in order to pay $3.00 for…
Thirty-eight houseplants
Yesterday while eating lunch, I watched the images slide by on Sunflower, our electronic picture frame. My eyes…
Two Things That Erode
Last week you read what happened when I didn’t “give” proper attention to registration for a workshop I…