Community Green

We have a choice. All of us. It may be a choice that changes, but it is always available. Being …

The sound was deafening. Thousands milled in the streets, on the sidewalks, hanging from trees, and sitting in balconies. This …

“I want to blame somebody,” my buddy said during our morning reverie together. “I want to blame the corporate structure …

I was an active kid. Climbing 40 feet up into a tree, leaving home each day to roam around a …

“Why does he think that way? How can he really believe that?” Overhearing these questions at a table next to …

“Who do you think I am?” she asked. Having this conversation on the first day of a new year, her …

“The darkness is so dark, “a friend said. “ And we haven’t even eaten dinner yet. I feel like a …

She chose to be quiet for two days, speaking to no one, listening to no news, shutting out the world …

“Ping, Ping.” I hear the sound as I enter the realm of “I-person” with my new I-phone. My children insisted …

There was nothing sacred about walls in our home — especially in our bedroom, which my brother and I shared. …

“When I grow up, you won’t be the boss of me,” I said, according to my mother, in the 1960s. …

I was 30 something, about to be married. Living in Sonoma County I decided to go to a “seconds  outlet …

“I can’t do that. I’m too stiff. And besides, I’m not interested in contorting myself into a pretzel.” Roger was …

As a friend recently told me, “The cup is broken. Even if we could glue it back together, it would …

“I don’t have a creative bone in my body!” I was upset. My junior high school was having a poster …