A friend called me from New York yesterday to tell me what she was going through. She’s in her eighties, her husband is five years older than she is, and he fell a few days ago. He really hurt himself and normally she would have taken him to the hospital. But nothing...

I don't know about you but I seem to be getting irritated lately by the smallest things. People say something that rubs me the wrong way. There are long hours in the day that I have to fill up and I’m tired of watching TV. I’m standing in line at the grocery store...

I attended a memorial service on Zoom yesterday for 120 people. My friend, Magi, who died was extremely loved. When they first found her breast cancer, it was Stage Two and with chemo and radiation, she had sent the beast into remission. She thought she had beaten it....

I noticed some changes this week as we’ve been Sheltering in Place for a month. At the beginning, we felt paralyzed. “I always wanted time to clean out the junk drawer and get rid of some old clothes in my closet, but now that I have it, I can't find any motivation.”...

When I was in the ballet in the sixties, we did a number of one night stand bus tours across the United States. They lasted for about 10 weeks to say that they were grueling is an understatement. Each day, we got on the bus at 7am, we traveled for hours trying to doze...

A few days ago I was talking on the phone to my sister and we were telling each other how we were passing the time in quarantine and how we were feeling. While I told her that I had projects to work on and writing to do and I was mostly okay, I walked into the...