The really great news for me is that I made it well into my ninth week of lockdown without opening a package of Oreos. Finding a glimmer of hope and happiness seems to be the key to survival during this time, isn’t it? Celebrating the smallest of successes? Lucky for me, I also have a happy place I can go to, so Oreos don’t have to be my answer. (Besides, the package barely made it into week 10.) How about you? Do you have a happy place where you can retreat for a physical, emotional or Continue Reading
A (Really) Grimm Fairy Tale
Once upon a time in a land not so far away, a nasty bug crawled over the entire earth. Creepier than a cockroach with a bite worse than a scorpion, it was a virus that changed the way everyone lived. Schools were closed, businesses had to lock their doors and people were told to stay home in an effort to capture this bug. Suddenly, parents had to teach their children, we had to fix our own meals, and learn to be entertained with just the people we lived with. Days stretched into weeks, that Continue Reading
I wrote a book
What are the chances that Madeline Albright and I had new books that went live on the same day? Coincidence? Oh sure, our contracts may be different, beginning with the fact that she has one and I don’t. Our subject matter differs slightly. Hers is the third memoir of her life as a distinguished ambassador, cabinet member and global influencer. My first novel is a light-weight rom-com that according to my kindle version, can be read in around six hours. That’s about the same time it takes Continue Reading
It’s all about the toilet paper
In 1982, I stood on the shores of Loch (Lake) Ness in Scotland, and looked out, searching for the Loch Ness monster. I knew it was a crazy notion. Saturday, I dipped my toes in what can only be called Loch Charmin. I was in search of the elusive toilet paper – just as crazy. I got up at 5:30, threw on clothes that looked reasonable in the dawning light and placed a cap on my head because that’s as close to doing my hair as I was going to do for a pre-dawn TP run. I made it to my grocery store Continue Reading