My Blog

I have always been for the underdog. When I used to go Christmas tree shopping, I would search for the “Charlie Brown” tree – the tree that was slightly imperfect – because I knew that nobody else would want a tree that is defective. And animals? If approaching a...

“I’ve just got to DO something!”  Those were my exact words after seeing the movie, Lion.  If you are not familiar with the film, it’s a true story about a young boy who gets separated from his family and ends up homeless on the streets of India.  Years later, he...

So, here we are, one year into this pandemic.  Who would have thought that our lives would be disrupted so quickly only to linger on into an uncertain end?  Will life ever return to normal?  What is normal, these days?  I think I’ve forgotten what brand of normal I am...

Last night I had the strangest dream.  Do you ever have nights like that?  Nights where you wake up the next morning with a dream lingering in your mind?  Oh, the bizarre and creative world of dreams!  I often marvel at how our brains can record moments of a day,...

I used to be an accomplished ballroom dancer. I competed and I won. That sounds pretty confident, doesn’t it?  Well, I took a break from ballroom and reentered the world of dance I was born into – ballet and jazz – and I tanked. I called myself the Bad News Bear of...