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I love, love, LOVE this video! Thanks to Fiona for telling me about it!

Thursday was the eighth anniversary of the legalization of Same Sex Marriage in Massachusetts . I missed it. I'm embarrassed I forgot....

“March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.” - Kahlil Gibran Today is Roo’s birthday. It’s also Jake’s ...

It still seems impossible that my sister Karen is gone. I know that it has been little more than two weeks since she died. I know there wi...

Today would have been my sister Karen's 65th birthday. Tonight, I stood in the town Karen called home for many years. This photo of t...

My sister Karen ~ 1947 - 2012 Zichrona liveracha ~ Her memory is a blessing

Back in May of last year I posted about the nifty phenomenon of how “Ralph” the seagull is always waiting for us in the same spot on Park L...

Even when it is cloudy/rainy/windy and the Porcupine Islands are shrouded in fog, it is still a pleasure to be here. (For those of you ou...

"Fred" flew by to welcome us back to Bar Harbor, Maine. (Is it just me or does his look say: "What took you two so long?...

The house at the end of our street was torn down. We heard a few different versions of how the lovely, mid-nineteenth century farmhouse had...

Seamus Heaney is brilliant. This clever video presents Seamus reading his poem “Digging” in a marvelous and engaging way. If you are tempte...

“How Doctors Die - It’s Not Like the Rest of Us But It Should Be” That’s the title of an article our niece Carrie sent us a link to shortly ...

To be clear, I HATE ticks. By all accounts this is going to be a very rough season. By season I mean spring, summer and autumn. An incred...

”Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Chuck Happy Birthday to you - and many more! Wheeeeeee!!!” He is the bee’...

Loved this!

Similar to the Irish tradition of remaining with the body of a loved one until burial, Shemira is the Jewish ritual of attending or guardin...

Thursday, February 9, 2012, we spent the afternoon with Chuck’s Tanta. Age 89 and in hospice care with liver cancer, she was clearly in her...

Bill Moyers has a fierce intellect coupled with a calm and dignified manner. Bill Moyers also has a way with words: "the malignant narc...

Willard Mitt Romney, one of the Republican presidential candidates, may have been born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he regularly sw...

SoundHound works. It kicks Shazam to the corner and back. Not only does it identify the music quickly and accurately, it is content rich ...