Ties That Bind

Inherited Traditions: Finding Our Way Through the Holidays

Sending you warm holiday greetings and wishes for a season filled with quiet moments of joy and the comfort of cherished traditions. Whether you're…

Dec 23, 2024 •

An Oath is Forever: A Veteran's Response to Insurrection

We're Neither Suckers Nor Losers. As a military veteran, I’ve found it impossible to come to grips with what happened on January 6, 2021…and the blind…

Nov 11, 2024 •

Notes from String Camp and trading Yo-Yo Ma dreams for yo-yo me reality

Tales from a Cello Newb, Part 3 ~ Savoring the experience of playing in a beginner orchestra and the reality that I couldn't continue my commitment to…

Nov 4, 2024

Never too late to bow: From cello newbie to recital ready in nine months

Tales from a Cello Newb, Part 2 ~ After months of practice, ready or not, I'm scheduled to play in a studio recital with students 18 and under...yikes!

Oct 28, 2024

At 62, a high school music reunion inspired me to take up the cello

Tales from a Cello Newb, Part 1: Can I do it? Can I live in my beginner brain being the recovering perfectionist that I am?

Oct 21, 2024 •

Ink Linked: Our Mother-Daughter Tattoo Journey

I used to hate tattoos...until I got one.

Sep 16, 2024 •

Covid, DNC & Moving Forward

After spending a great time in Atlanta at the Women Marines Convention, I flew home…and came down with Covid.

Aug 26, 2024 •

Women Marines: The Fewer and Prouder

Dispatches from the Semper Fi Sisterhood at their Biennial Convention in Atlanta, Georgia

Aug 12, 2024 •

Remembering Mom

and all the other Mothers who mothered me, and honoring my daughter who is an awesome mother!

May 8, 2024 •

Surgery Setback a Speed Bump on the Road to Retirement

"I. Am. Independent. As. F*ck!" I said in my pain block stupor. Turns out, I'm a non-compliant patient...but four months later, I'd hit the retirement…

Apr 15, 2024 •

The Best Jewish Mother a Baby Dyke Could Have

Feb 19, 2024 •

Repaying a Karmic Debt

How an overheard conversation at a car rental counter resulted being able to repay the gratitude I felt when someone came to my rescue 34 years earlier.

Feb 15, 2024 •

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