First things first: great big happy congratulations to aNewsCafe on the success of the first online auction to benefit students affected by the Carr Fire (and the Camp Fire)! I watched the bidding with...
Author: Deb Segelitz
We were fortunate over the spring and summer, here in the far north of Scotland. By all accounts it was the longest period of great weather since the 1950s. We took a few drives,...
This story is probably not going where you think it’s going. I have my “me too” moments, as does pretty much every woman I know, and some of the men I know, as well....
Connections. We all make them, in various ways. We connect with people, places, art, stories, animals, ideas, nature, you name it. If we’re lucky, now and then a little bit of magic happens between...
As I sit at my laptop looking out on a Highland summer day that is alternately sunny and drizzly, I think of all of you and wonder what I can possibly write about in...
Now and then I have a wander through my old blog when the world news feels overwhelming and I need a distracting look down memory lane. So it was that the other day I...
The day started out sunny. We were headed down to our former wee village to visit our friend Al, and since we hadn’t been there for a while my husband and I were looking...
I’ve just had a dinner that’s about as Scottish as it gets: haggis, neeps and tatties – translation: haggis, turnip and potatoes. Unfortunately, I ate alone, since my husband was stricken by one of...
Note: This article was originally written in 2015 for Home Dialysis Central. While my husband is no longer on peritoneal dialysis, much of what I wrote at the time still applies in our ‘dialysis life’....
Hints of spring are popping up around the Highlands after a long, wet, snowy winter. To see more sunshine up in the northern latitudes as the earth does her springtime thing definitely lifts the...
