The tickets had clung to my bulletin board for months. Finally, today, I’d meet the revered Dalai Lama, the highly respected Buddhist Tibetan leader and Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but I prepared myself to be forever changed by this man and his words. I wasn’t disappointed.
Of course, our meeting […]

Published in Dogs In Canada Magazine, July, 2007.
My beloved childhood black labrador was a dignified, stoic old dog, good at listening and taking care of us. Soon after he passed away, my parents brought home Max, also a black lab, who quickly grew into a bear of black fur.
Max was a whole new experience for […]

Published, 4/15/07, The Broomfield Enterprise
Haven’t we all, at some point, said it would be wonderful to have an instructional manual telling us how to raise our kids? Well, now there is!Okay—I was lying. Even though this would be the perfect place to post the answer to this age-old desire, I have nothing to offer. Instead […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 10/7/07
I grew up in the midst of the women’s movement, with Marlo Thomas’ “Free To Be…You And Me” record playing daily in the background. I vividly recall days the house key dangled from my red yarn necklace and phoning my working mother the moment I returned from school. Other days, […]