It’s never surprising to me when a Beatles song captures the spirit of real events unfolding in our lives, but recently this particular tune has really done that:  “You say ‘Yes,’ I say ‘No.”  You say ‘Stop’ and I say…

In my “Welcome Message” I describe how my eye often goes to the line where two different colors meet, such as that familiar ceiling – to – wall intersection.   A friend has since told me that she has a long…

“Out with the Old, In with the New” is a line we hear often around New Year’s time.  In a way, of course, that’s much easier said than done:  aren’t we all more or less amalgamations of what’s past, what’s…

One day early in our marriage, I came back to our apartment in New Haven and found my husband sitting back in his desk chair, feet up on the desk, with a strange expression on his face.  “What are you…

We are just a couple of weeks away from the year 2012, and that means we will be just three years away from 2015 – target date for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs).   Established in 2000…

I spent the day after Thanksgiving, a day that has come to be known as “Black Friday,” at a sports complex with multiple hockey rinks.  Our daughter plays on a team in the New England Girls Hockey League, and this…

This essay was published on Nov. 18th  as a “First Person” column in Hampshire Life — weekly magazine of the DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE.   At the end of August, we took our high school senior to visit a couple of Pennsylvania…