Life, they say, is what happens while you’re otherwise occupied. I’m not sure if I believe that, but I do believe that you can miss life by being occupied. We can get caught up in crisis living and miss the turns on our personal paths that are most meaningful. What do I mean? Honestly, I’m gra...

My husband is a multi-medium artist. One medium is pottery. I enjoy watching him work with the clay and have since he was working with Raku one day and I was helping him quench the pots. You take these red-hot pots out of the kiln and put each one into a small metal garbage can that’s got shredded...

Writers spend a lot of time alone, which means they usually avoid exposure to a mountain of germs, viruses and other nasty flu bugs. But during the holidays, by necessity, they’re out and around and, because everyone else is, too, they’re bombarded. We can’t avoid exposure, but there are a few...