What a glorious sunny day for May Day. Wildflowers everywhere - brilliant yellows, pale blues, fiery reds. Cherry blossoms shower their soft pink petals on the trail as I run around Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. Turtles sun themselves on raised logs. Two families of Canada geese with their gaggles of goslings glide in the water alongside sea gulls and ducks. One gosling is so excited to be in the water, she keeps bobbing and splashing up and down in the water, then speeding up to rejoin her family. That's the way [...]

Recently I had this dream:At the large 1908 house where I raised the kids, there is a women’s writing conference going on. Some women stroll around the garden, or sit in the courtyard under the shiny dark green leaves and glossy white blossoms of the large magnolia tree. Inside there are others, writing in groups, talking. A circle is going on. A writer and teacher friend of mine comes over and tells me:“There is something on the front porch that you should see. She has a lot of stories to tell.” I go [...]