Can you, or can you not, teach an old dog new tricks? Well friends, in my house the jury is still out on which way to flip that aphorism. The dog: our yorkie, Ella who, coming up on six is not so old but is intractably stubborn. The trick: sleeping overnight in her kennel. AnContinue reading "How To Train Your Human, part 1"
Hatching Dreams from an Empty Nest
Some number of years ago, I was having lunch with a friend, a woman I’d met in the tenacious and sometimes duplicitous trenches of the school PTO board. Our youngest children are the same age, and we were both heading into the final bend of that seemingly endless, curving road we’d been traveling. We couldContinue reading "Hatching Dreams from an Empty Nest"
Life Behind Bars
The story of Arcadia’s newest (and smallest) gated community “You can see why the people hated them so much,” quipped my teenage daughter as we approached the gates of Versailles. It was, indeed, an unsettling sight. Gold-plated gaudiness stretching as far as the eye could see, luminous even under a heavy cloud cover and aContinue reading "Life Behind Bars"
Begin the Begin
Why is it so hard to start something new? I’ve been in the process of starting a business since the spring of 2016. I started working on my website in January 2017, and today, 18 months later, I am writing my first blog post. That might not seem like a big deal, except I’m aContinue reading "Begin the Begin"
All Around Arcadia
Write what you know. – Mark Twain
Lisa Binsfeld author 