These Autumn winds blowing in from the Northeast often bring the winds of regret for me, and I wonder if you feel the same. Aside from the roiling winds of political mayhem that have been wearing on all of us, I regret putting away my carefree summer clothes and sandals, and my brilliant containers of flowers are going to die soon. So much regret…I never…
I have a deep addiction. So do you, probably. It’s to my screen. And yet it so often disappoints me, enrages me, saddens me. I’ve been exploring “digital fatigue,” and I think I have it — a different version of chronic fatigue syndrome. The classic definition of this is too much time staring at a screen, but that’s not what my fatigue is about. First,…
A while ago I joined a Facebook group called Buy Nothing. It is very local to specific communities (mine is Chadds Ford-Pennsbury Township), and people from outside those communities are urged not to join, but to join or form one local to them. The idea is that it should be easy for neighbors to share what they no longer need. I am fascinated and pleased…
At the very leading edge of the Great Recession, my partner/husband Bob and I were on a food tour of Chinatown, San Francisco (not yet called Asiantown). As I watched a big tray full of live frogs climbing over each other while the shop owner angrily waved me and my camera away, my cell phone rang. It was a new client of our welcome service…