"I meet people and they become chapters in my stories." More from life on a commuter train... The announcement came as we pulled into the...

"The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners, hand on the torch of life." ~ Lucretius I awake at 3 am on this...

"Herein lies the tragedy of the ages: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty, not that men are wicked, - who is good?...

Hello, everyone! Summer is about to end, In Small Doses begins. I hope these past months have been all you'd hoped they would be - fresh...

"It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's...

"I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going." ~ Angela Lansbury...

In The News - This week I'm posting a notice about a program I believe deserves mention. If you're involved in a program you'd like to...

"Divide and rule, the politician cries. Unite and lead, is the watchword of the wise." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Narcissist: a word...

"What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's...

Note a: A dear friend sent out a group message to friends asking them to visit, "In Small Doses". Happily, more than 10 new readers...

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love." ~Rumi As I write, I'm tense. Trapped. Is it a hard...

"...have space to spread my mind out in." ~Virginia Woolf When we want answers we head to Google. We sit at computers, sit on the train,...

"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say." ~ Bryant H. McGill This week I had lunch...

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind." ~ Albert Einstein One year ago I stopped watching television...

"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." ~ Edgar Allan Poe What fun it is to read a writer's...

"The world is full of strife. Never add to it." ~Anne Elizabeth Austen (2012) For all of my life, I loved my mother completely. She was...

I begin this post with a tribute to a favourite poet who left us this week - Mary Oliver. Ms. Oliver's words tell of the sacred, adoring...

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his (her) freedom." ~ Bob Dylan The Equal Rights Amendment was...

"A leader is a dealer in hope." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte As an intern in an adolescent group home I was assigned the role of counselor for a...

"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." ~ Mohsin Hamid Christmas is a gentle time. People smile easily, they're...