We are having an outstanding weekend here at Ocean Shores! This is our annual Winter Solstice Hatha Yoga Retreat. As with every retreat, I seem to go go go non stop until the group arrives. And then once the retreat begins, I immerse myself in this singular experience of being [...]
Photo of the day: My nephew, John, just sent me this photo he took of his brother, Vince, in Grotte, Sicily with my aunt, Zia Maria. Zia Maria is one of my mom's older sisters! She is absolutely amazing at 93 years old. She is sturdy, feisty, fiercely independent, and [...]
Tomas Transtromer, in his collected poem, The Great Enigma, writes: "My maternal grandfather, Carl Helmer Westerberg, was born in 1860. He was a ship's pilot and a very good friend of mine, seventy-one years older than myself. Oddly enough, the same difference in age existed between him and his own [...]
On Thursday morning we left for Harrison Hot Springs Hotel and Spa at Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada. It's about a 3 hour drive from Seattle, so it is easy to forget we are going to another country. Just as we were leaving, after many farewells and [...]
I was born 50 years ago today. My birthday fell on Thanksgiving Day and my sisters still remember Aunt Lily taking over on the Thanksgiving Day meal as dad took mom to Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana for my birth. My sisters still remember getting the phone call from dad [...]