26 Aug Magnificent Midlife Podcast.
What a delight to chat with Londoner Rachel Lankester, founder of the Magnificent Midlife Movement. She celebrates and empowers women in midlife and beyond. "We’re not over the hill or...
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16 Sep Children of the Dump
Phew. Let’s just say, I steeled myself for the poverty I might see yesterday, but I was not at all prepared for the lessons I would learn. At 8am, all thirteen...
22 Aug 82 Blocks through Manhattan
Yesterday was a very unproductive day. For three hours I sat in my little cubicle, my mind on everything but my manuscript. At 6pm I finally gave up and decided...
06 Sep The Final Mile of Writing a Memoir
There are a lot of emotions tangled up in writing your life story. I have come to learn that it’s not MY story, but a tapestry of many people’s stories...
05 Apr 50 Years – Has Anything Changed?
I wrote this piece for a writing class four or five years ago. After listening to all the MLK tributes yesterday, I thought it might be worth resurrecting. “Is it fair to...
17 Jun Istanbul during Ramadan 2016
I travel on a very limited budget. The down side of that is I seldom discover the art of fine dining in the places I visit. The good side is...
10 Jun Ah, History!
I’ve always hated history. Ever since the 7th grade at Sidney Phillips, when my social studies teacher made us memorize an exhaustive list of wars and Louises with Roman numerals,...
08 Jun Istanbul, June 2016
Not good. Four days in this intriguing city is way short of what it’ll take to really see it. We had just gotten settled in our apartment. With the front windows...
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