When I’m feeling stressed, there’s a chance that I won’t remember to breathe fully. Years ago I learned deep breathing through meditation and bodywork classes and I’m actually pretty decent at it — yet under...
We go on a family camping trip every summer and have done that for the last dozen years. Kunkel Kamp involves my husband and me, our kids and their kids — twelve of us....
The other day I watched a forty-something couple arguing and yes, I guess that technically qualifies as eavesdropping. The disagreement was over something simple, just like most of the things that cause friction are...
When I first haul myself out of bed in the morning, I feed first my cat because the meowing makes me a little nuts, and then my dog — then the deer if they’re...
When I was out walking this morning, I passed an older man headed in the opposite direction. His companion was a large, shaggy dog and the man was a little shaggy too — plus...
Most days, I read the obituaries in our newspaper. I’ve lived here long enough that the names and faces of people that I know — or knew, I guess, in this case — turn...
Sometimes I meet someone that I actively solicit to be my friend — someone with whom I connect immediately and know that I want in my life. And every now and then I end...
I’m back in the blog business. Lightly Tethered to the Earth had a major issue with the most recent update of WordPress and for twelve days I haven’t been able to get into the...
Someone recently apologized to me for something he had done — or actually in this case, something he hadn’t done — a few years ago. I had thought it was in the past. I told...
Our family lived in several different places and then thirty years ago we made the ultimate change and moved to an island off the east coast. My husband left his university job, we pulled...
