Take the pledge to live happy and to live in the moment. Remember what it felt like to get your first bicycle; buy your first car; complete your first New York Times crossword puzzle; have the first... Read more >>

Last week my easy-going husband was acting a bit “off.” He finally fessed up that he was on overload from reading the paper and watching the news—he was feeling blue and anything but... Read more >>

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." ~ Diane Ackerman Have you ever looked at old... Read more >>

A late model Dodge Durango has been parked in front of our house for a couple of weeks now. My husband and I live on a short, narrow street in the historical section of Sag Harbor. I have a general... Read more >>

“It is written.” That’s the last line of the movie from India called Slumdog Millionaire. It’s a gripping and often shocking story of how fate unfolds along what seem to be... Read more >>

"One day at a time—this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make... Read more >>

Every fall, as the leaves redden and fall off the branches and pile up on my lawn, the magazines pile up in my mailbox, each whispering and begging me to open them, hoping I’ll add their goodies... Read more >>

Does the title of this post have you a bit worried? (Me too.) A bit skeptical? (Yup.) A bit concerned that I have taken my sordid affair with Mr. Metaphor too far? (Could be. But all’s fair in... Read more >>

My goal has been to get out more with my camera. It’s so peaceful to walk about and photograph the world around me. I can get lost in my thoughts and the images that surround me. I am trying to... Read more >>

Right now, I really don’t know how to describe what I really feel. There are lots of things in my mind that are really bugging me off, like projects that are due next week, about the next... Read more >>