READY FOR 60?

Technically, this will be the last post I write in my 50s. By the time I do next week’s post, I will have reached the milestone 60 years....

It is 5:00 am. I have been awake for about an hour. The world outside is half-light and foggy, with the full moon making weird shapes on ...

It is the Civic Holiday Monday morning and I sit at my desk in my home office. For the first time in over 10 days, a cool breeze is comin...

I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of ...

Still thinking about dreams. But now focusing more on the dreamer. That is where it really begins. We’ve all heard the axiom that if ther...

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relation; and suddenly fi...

The title for this blog post has many echoes. It is certainly not original to me. Currently, it is the title of a song and the name of a ...

With the past two months we’ve endured in this country, Canadians must feel as though we are "steeped” in grief. We have lost thousands t...

One simple act of beauty yesterday brought me back to a powerful lesson in life: Bloom anyway. These times we are navigating where so muc...

Another week navigated in the pandemic. The news keeps coming in. The numbers keep going up. It’s more than just a bit overwhelming. Alon...

The pandemic posts continue. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee this content and focus in something as benign and introspective as ...

As the pandemic continues, we push back on fear and ramp up on faith. We also pull together to navigate these unprecedented times. This w...

So no post last week…the week the world lost its mind. How does one blog during a world crisis? You step back, you pull focus, and you ac...

We know the kitchen is the heart of the home. The home is the heart of our lives. It is central to our everyday living and—to be honest—o...

Saturday was Leap Day. Accordingly, I re-watched Leap Year with Amy Adams and Matthew Goode. Although the movie got mostly negative review...

When we were much younger, we often heard the term “your whole life ahead of you” applied to different situations we were dealing with. W...

Saturday night, February 1st, I watched Groundhog Day—the 1993 movie with Bill Murray. It’s a classic and brilliant comedy about a guy wh...

Earlier this month, I found myself at Santa’s Workshop in North Pole, New York (It’s a long story). I grew up watching the commercials fo...

The village of Mendocino sits on the northern coast of California, wrapped by its Headlands and the rugged cliffs that meet the Pacific O...

California State Route 128 winds northwest toward the northern coast of the state. Connecting Freeway 101 to the coastal California Highw...