Just when I knew exactly what I was going to write for this week’s blog, something stunning happened. After a double workout of strength training and swimming I made a recovery snack and turned on the radio. They were saying something about Queen Elizabeth II. In...

This week is all about disruption. Monday morning at 7 AM the long anticipated landscaping crew arrived. Their mission that day was a tough one: weed the graveled strip alongside the driveway, remove a volunteer tree against the chain link fence,  remove the gravel...

  Hey, everybody, I’m in print!   What do you mean? Yeah. You look just the same as always.   It’s not about how I look, 9, it’s that something I’ve written in now in the pages of a national magazine!   Amazing. Have you hit the Big Time?  ...

Two weeks ago I witnessed and intervened in an unacceptable act of verbal aggression perpetrated on a public trail. This week I encountered another incident of normalized violence at Murr Sports Park, involving cruelty to animals. Seems I’m in activist mode- -no...

Do you ever have a string of days when unusual things occur? That’s what my week has been like so far.   Really? I don’t remember anything unusual happening.   Are you sure, Lily? What about me doing a circuit on weight machines on Monday?   Oh.  That....

Have you ever been somewhere in public, in a peaceful place that’s supposed to be for everyone’s use and enjoyment, and witness an unbelievable act of aggression?   Like when we were out Trick-or-Treating and those mean high school boys kicked a hole in David’s...