“If You Really Want to Help, Make Them a Meal”
A Tribute to Joan Pires I remember it as if it were yesterday. On the porch of my home, she stood with the supermarket bag, containing a 5-tiered dinner she’d prepared especially for us. She was a...
View ArticleIn Life, “You Have to Find Your Pond”
(Glassy lake mirrors new springtime vegetation all around. An idyllic scene from Magnolia Plantation, just outside Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by CKMellor) One suggestion I give to younger who...
View ArticleBiddy’s Five-Pronged Plan to Meet a Mate
I hear it all the time from young women: “But how do you meet men?” Answer: “They’re all around. Just change the way you interact…Move outside your comfort zone. Be daring (but also wise)”… I’ll...
View ArticleAppreciate Wrong-Way Turns on the Road of Life
(The masters of the French Impressionist school knew the whole was always waaaayyy more than the sum of its parts. In fact, mostly, the individual parts made no sense, until they all came together....
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