Good morning, dear Reader,Can you believe we're already halfway through January? The days are just flying by! I hope the beginning of this new year has been everything you could wish for. I'm ending a long stretch of stress, after the upheaval of the...

Happy New Year, dear Reader!Can you believe it's already 2023? Where did a whole year go? Tempus fugit -- time flies -- for real, yeah? Last year was one full of challenges, some well-managed, others not so much. But as I keep telling folks who ask,...

Good afternoon, dear Reader!This will be my last newsletter of 2022. Just saying that is surreal, because doesn't it feel like the year just started? We're now only 18 days away from 2023! Mercy! And though it isn't technically winter as yet, you can...

Happy holidays, dear Reader!As the Christmas carol says, it's the most wonderful time of the year for most people. Yes, there are many who suffer greatly during this season, and we should do all we can and know how to do to help make their holidays l...

Dear Readers,If you live in the US, you know that Thanksgiving is a big -- and often controversial -- deal. There's a lot of eating and reconnecting with family and friends. It was never my favorite holiday of the season -- that honor goes to Christm...

Dear Reader,This will be a hurried note because this month is known in the writing world as NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month, and I'm supposed to be writing 1634 words a day in order to have the draft of a 50K-word story by the 30th. So pl...

Dear Reader,Here's to October! It is the month of my birth, and it is also my most favorite month of the year! Elsewhere in the world, where the seasons are not as notably marked as they are here in the northeast US, Nature's fashion show wears diffe...

Dear Reader,What an eventful fortnight it has been in our part of the Atlantic basin. Hurricane Fiona did a number on some Caribbean islands, its effects reaching as far north as Nova Scotia in Canada. Then Ian came along and multiplied the sorrow. I...

Good evening, Readers,It's been three weeks since I was last with you and much has happened in that time. And as I'm sure y'all know, adulting is nothing if not full of adventure and drama. Well, mine is, at any rate.So, after my father-in-law's fune...

Dear Reader,It's been thirty years since I was last on the island where I was born, and now I've been here for sixteen days and the culture shock is sometimes overwhelming, just as the memories are. This will be a really short newsletter because I ca...