throwing towels and tossing kitchen sinks

There’s a piece of me that is relieved this afternoon. For several years, eating at home, or more to … More

clean AND dog are not antonyms

It’s Thursday and I haven’t posted a story about Dexter and Comet this week. So , fashionably late, it seems, … More

“Perversely inclined to do the opposite” is exactly what makes my attempt to have a Southern California garden, so maddening.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. Democritus For the … More

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be … More

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. Martin Luther King, Jr. I got to … More

If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra I am pretty lousy at … More

Dexter has now got a paw “thing”. He licks his paw when he is not eating, barking at the garbage … More

A recent post of one of my blogging buddies, Kairos, featured an interview with Rabbi Abraham Twerski, on how a … More