But you might be a writer if… — You get twitchy if there isn’t a notebook and pen within reach. Most television shows don’t hold your attention without jotting down stray thoughts. Documentaries are a cornucopia of ideas. You have files of wonderful quotations just waiting for the opportunity to use them. You constantly add to your quotation…

All We Need is Love — June 25 is #GlobalBeatlesDay, a day where people have been celebrating the iconic foursome from Liverpool who first burst onto the music scene in the 60s. …

Being pollyannaish is usually meant as a rebuke, a snub, or sometimes total denigration depending on the person wielding the epithet. But what if, in those pollyannaish moments, a person was actually seeing with clarity into a world of possibilities, a nicer, kinder, world?

The diversity of the writers, their interests, and their opinions is fascinating. I can fritter away far too much time just reading one story after another that catches my eye.

This makes sense to me. Email from your top favorite writers, and scroll through the others in your following list. I'm on board.

I can't get a response from the Facebook gods about recovering my account. — Since my husband passed last year, I haven't been on FB much. I check my notifications in case someone is doing something I need to be aware of and respond to business types of queries and notices by email. …

November 11, Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Lest We Forget.....the lessons not learned. Moving words David.

So many suffer from depression and isolation that the constant bombardment of negativity has to jeopardize their well-being. As it is increasing exponentially I really appreciate your editorial stance. We need more balance and light in the world.

A friend was diagnosed with leukemia and sent home from a top cancer facility with 2 years to live. She went home to her family and declared that she would live long enough to watch her then 9 year old daughter graduate from high school. When her daughter was in grade 10 she talked her husband into adopting a little boy, and then declared she would see him graduate. As the boy grew up the daughter married and had children of her own. Last thing I heard was that she was going to dance at her grandchildren's weddings.