Entertaining things to do at home, especially if you’re on your own? These are the 14 options I can’t get enough of…
Coronavirus Anxiety? Let’s Hear It for Soap, Social Distancing, and Storytelling!
Coronavirus anxiety? Perhaps this will help…
Can’t Quite Quit Your Devices?
Saying NO to the pull of the smartphone or tablet may not be easy, but…
When You Need Alone Time
When you choose to be alone, at least in specific doses.
On Your Own
Solitude, by choice and by circumstance.
When You Marry a Loner
It’s a personality, a way of life, a challenge in marriage…
Silence is Golden, Sort Of
No need to dress. No need to drive. No need to cook – heating a frozen dinner in the microwave was just fine. And not one word. No need to speak at all, for 36 hours. Bliss. Yesterday was my first day off in two months. No parenting, no worrying, no checking a clock or […]
Moment of silence
Last evening I wrote in the quiet. I watched a movie on cable. I read, then wrote some more. And settled slowly into a rhythm of 24 hours of silence. Strangely peaceful silence. Everything in me unwinds, finally, after a week of being on my own, in this observation of an hour of silence, and […]
Dear Family of Strangers Connecting
Dear Family of Strangers Connecting: How odd to wake each morning and think of you, immediately. Even as dreams hover. Even as the week’s worries crystallize too quickly, as I wonder what we shall say to each other, as I picture you rushing to jobs, to schools, to computers, to the day’s errands all too […]