• Stream and Shale

    (Excerpt from my book, Stream and Shale.) 6AM. At the journey’s beginning, stars still shine brightly in the dark blue sky. It’s below freezing. We gather on a Brooklyn street corner and wait for the bus going to a Citizens Tour of Pennsylvania arranged by Brooklyn for Peace. Each person carries a few gallons of…

  • My Mother, My Daughters, and Breast Cancer

    Genes cause cancer. But genes do not necessarily cause death from cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time of both hope and remembrance for me. Hope for a better future, and remembrance for my Mother. She died suddenly of metastatic breast cancer at about the time I was going to deliver my second baby daughter.…

  • Belinda, a Shelter Rabbit Adoption

    I adopted Belinda, a Dwarf Agouti female rabbit yesterday from the Manhattan ACC in Harlem. Hoping to adopt, I browsed the Animal Care Centers of NYC, ACC website every day for a month to look at all the rabbits, and I “hearted” Belinda early on. When I finally clicked on the “adopt me” button around…

  • Bunny Adoption Anticipation

    I clicked the box “adopt me” on the NYC ACC Animal Care Center site for a beautiful “boroughbred” rabbit right before the start of the New Year. Taking care of house rabbits was a delightful part of my life for about 5 years while we had Riley, our dwarf Hotot pictured below, and then his…

  • My 2022 New Year’s Resolution: Prevent Cancer If I Can

    Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health estimate that up to 75% of American cancer deaths can be prevented.  For 2022, My New Year’s resolution is to have the best health I can. Top on my list of things I can do are those that prevent cancer. Cancer is the leading cause of death…