EXPLORING THE MAGICAL AND THE MUNDANE


  • The Holidays Approacheth

    We’re heading into the Holidays, now. Here they come!!!! This weekend, Mr. Al and I are working on our Christmas cards…not sending them out, but figuring out what we’re going to do this year. Takes some planning. And then Thursday is Thanksgiving! Yay! We all get to watch a parade of big balloons. I never…


  • Simmering

    As I was waiting for my water to boil this morning –I make my coffee in a Chemex—I sleepily thought about what I was going to write about this fine, drippy, rainy morning. It smells all loamy outside. I love that rain smell. And the creek is up. I can see it moving fast out…


  • Pithy Is As Pithy Does

    Good morning! Have your Sunday Morning Coffee in your hand?  I’m on my second cup. It’s one of those mornings. Saw a beautiful dawn before it started to rain. Sure wish I had something deep and wise to share with you today but I used up all my wisdom allotment earlier in the week. I’ve…


  • Happiness

    Until very (very) recently I believed it was my responsibility to keep my loved ones happy. Silly me. Talk about enabling. We were all born happy and it’s our own responsibility to keep our Happiness Tank Full.  It’s an inside job. But I somehow got it into my head that because I’m basically a happy…


  • The Spirit Moves…

    This island is so alive.  So immediate.  So filled with Aloha.  I wonder if I’ll live here someday. But not today. Mr. Al and I  leave Tuesday. I’m ready. Feeling renewed. Plotted out my next book and then something else surprising happened…I guess I needed the time away from my day-to-day to allow the idea to come…