What a lovely surprise to finally discover how un-lonely being alone can be. - - - Ellen Burstyn There’s a common misunderstanding about “being alone” vs. “loneliness.” Loneliness is about feeling separate and disconnected. Being alone is about being with yourself and...

 “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”                                 - - - Albert Einstein WhenI was a kid, we had a summer guest house called The Tide Rock House in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Many of our guests were Canadian, enjoying the beach for their yearly...

I was married for the first time in 1969. I was a teenager and it was no surprise that it was a debacle. I knew nothing about relationships or the real world. I was fresh off the ballet stage. I’d lived in a bubble with a group of other dancers and my life had been...

  Sometimes I get a bad case of the “I don’t wannas.”  Yesterdaymorning, I was getting ready to go to a doctor’s appointment for a routine yearly checkup and I was dragging my feet. I wasn’t afraid of what they might find. I’m healthy and the chances of a problem were...

I once had a dream about a judge. He was dressed in a long black robe, sitting at his bench, his hand on his gavel. I was the only other person in the courtroom, playing and replaying mental scenarios that had occurred at different times in my life. When an image came...