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Recently, my son gave me Dr. Jane Goodall’s Book of Hope, subtitled “A Survival Guide for Trying Times.”  During this spate of recent darkness – the murders at Brown University, Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner – I needed Dr. Goodall’s Hope, and the antidote that

When my younger daughter texted me from New York saying she couldn’t talk because she was about to hop onto a train to go see Taylor Swift’s newly released “Life of a Showgirl,” my mind raced back a number of decades to the time when my closest, oldest friend and

I haven’t written a blogpost in a while because like Gulliver, in  Jacob A. Pfeiffer’s trompe l’oiel painting above, I’ve been in a bind. My bind wasn’t because of smaller people having tied me down — rather it was because I couldn’t grab hold of an idea worthy of tying

Friends recently invited us to the showing of a film called Raising Bar. Bar is the son of much loved friends of theirs. He is also a man with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Many years ago, Bar’s parents had the foresight to recognize that inevitably a day would come

Events and scents, sights and sounds can, in a nanosecond, transport us back in time. Sometimes we are brought to a beautiful place or time; other times we are abruptly carried back to sad and painful memories.  Sometimes both happen at the same time. Such was the case for me

Recently, while having a conversation about metacognition with Matt Hampton, founder of Envoy Design, we got to talking about the many kinds of lenses that inform our world views.  In addition to his usual work (which isn’t really that usual), Matt is co-host of Irreverent Health, a podcast he co-created

Photo of my Mom, Gertrude M. Webb, in Iceland – circa 2004 Long before America Ferrara made her iconic 2023 Barbie speech about women’s inability to ever “get it right”, the 1991 book, “Be An Outrageous Older Woman”, by Ruth Harriet Jacobs, a gerontologist at the Wellesley College Center for

Recently at a photography exhibit, I was gob smacked by Los Angeles photographer Corinne Cobabe’s portfolio Perfect is Not a Word. Her accompanying artist’s statement was “Nice big home. Nice cars. Nice things. Big family. Very religious. High standards. Arguments. Substances. Lots of money. Then none. Eventually, a divorce. Leaving

Recently I had the opportunity to visit the inspiring Corning Museum of Glass. However, my visit coincided with a previous commitment that was made to be interviewed on Judy Heft’s podcast.   So… I decided to arrive early at the museum and see if I could scout out an unobtrusive yet