My Very Expensive Laundry Folding Table

March 21, 2018

I am standing in my small office-storage-laundry room folding towels newly out of the dryer.  I have dumped the bulky warm pile onto the nearest flat surface, and as I draw out the next tangled towel, I realize… … the surface on which they are sitting, and I am using to fold, is my wedding … Read More

Women’s History Month

March 16, 2018

Before Women’s History Month 2018 ends, I thought I’d contribute this chapter in the Jogbra story.  It is a revision of one that appeared earlier. So often I get asked to tell this tale.  Here’s a part of it. Early “Jockbra” We’d done it.  Polly and I had transformed my idea into a reality: we … Read More

True Beauty and Plastic

March 6, 2018

What do sea glass and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise have in common? I grew up eating Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise (which my mother pronounced “my-O-nayz”) and Gulden’s Spicy Brown Mustard. They came in glass jars. As did Heinz Tomato Ketchup. And every other condiment I can think of at the moment. No more. I’ve looked and looked. One … Read More

The Fraud & The Seeker

February 26, 2018

Give me a bathing suit and point me towards ocean surf.  No boards, please.  That was, and still is, my idea of being “active.”  But in my mid-twenties, living in Vermont, no ocean was nearby.  I started running and found my land-based equivalent of active joy. My running never grew into a desire to compete.  … Read More

Natural Beauty

January 29, 2018

The natural world is often a human being’s first introduction to and relationship with external beauty – the True Beauty without.  In our current urban-central, agri-business world, unfortunately, too many people develop only a “nodding basis” with the natural world.  Sadly, it is no longer a central reference point for the culture. Yet our instinctual … Read More