“sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care”

Macbeth is talking about the importance of sleep. He describes sleep as something that “knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,” meaning it repairs the tangled threads of worry and stress from the day. He calls sleep “the death of … Continue reading

My Pitch for a Movie: a true story

It is a story full of humor and heart as two elders create ways to overcome the obstacles of circumstance and physical limitation to embark on the last intimate and romantic adventure of their lives–including afternoon meetings at a mall, intimate conversations on the front seat of his old Subaru Forester, and, finally, navigating cheap motels and experimenting with her medical marijuana Continue reading

Dooce is Dead

As a personal blogger back in the early blogging days, Dooce inspired and pushed the envelope for many of us trying to establish our own authentic voices on the internet. As she succeeded in writing herself into existence, she paved the way for personal bloggers, like me, to use that public format as a way to navigate our ways through tumultuous personal times because we did not have to feel isolated and unheard. Continue reading