Old age allows time to seek joy and bask in it.
Our unswept deck is littered with rain-soaked catkins and tulip tree petals. My inbox entices me with fascinating genealogical insights and well-written articles on current politics, while lilting poems offer…
I’ve written a great deal about joy over the years, yet I have rarely written about the joy of being a mother. Perhaps my reticence to share my children’s importance…
In my 1960s college days, I was lucky enough to observe live flatworms (planaria) under microscopes. They are incredibly cute, with two big eyes on the tops of their triangular…
It’s coming fast. Artificial intelligence will bring about social changes on the order of the Industrial Revolution: “fueling rapid urbanization, a growing middle class, and increased consumer access to goods….severe…
It’s impossible to witness the firings of lifetime civil servants and the defunding of humanitarian agencies without despair and anger. Each day's news delivers yet another hammer blow to my…
I’m working very hard to ignore the news these days: tragic photos of Gaza refugees, stories of career civil servants being illegally dismissed, the fear of our many immigrant neighbors;…
I am in the midst of mind-numbing group editing, Debate is raging among 11 opinionated seniors on whether it is best to say that culture, relationships and experiences are recursive,…