In the London Underground commuters are warned to “mind the gap,” lest they fall between the platform and the open door to the train.The gap is dangerous. To fall into it, deadly. Between what we know and don’t know there is also a gap. It goes by many names —…

A Sketch a Day, Everyday: What I’ve Learned So Far Art is never the result of what you set out to do. At the beginning of the year, my friend Mindy convinced me to do a sketch a day with her. …

What salmon know about how to defy gravity It turns out facing things is not as hard, not nearly as hard, as resisting them. …

It turns out that the key to learning how to walk is learning how to fall. Infants who are learning to walk don’t move forward in one continuous straight line.They take a step, lose their balance and fall.They speed forward, stop short, fall backward. …

I introduced myself at a women’s networking event, with a poem I liked, written by a woman I knew: Lost & Found I was born old & serious Some would say a bit weird & curious I did have dreams of how I’d like to spend my life But I…

The Case of the Missing Home, part 2 (Watch/listen to the audio version here) For those of you who have been following The Case of the Missing Home, here’s a quick recap of what has happened so far: A dancer I’d met a few times socially, wrote me one day…

Start with something other than yourself Free writing which is supposed to be a kind of brain dump, but sometimes it mires me in the swamp of obsessive thoughts. …

When I started selling ads for the Community Newspaper, I imagined that a Community Newspaper might do what online news cannot: reconnect us to the places where we live and the people living there A community newspaper could be the key to building a real sense of community based on…

For the same reasons you should consider shopping locally: Money spent and circulated within the community strengthens the local economy . For every $100 a customer spends on local businesses, about $68 stays in the community. This means local dollars are reinvested back into local businesses. Thriving local businesses also…