It can be a cover up, but not always. As we get older and still don’t kick the shyness habit, sometimes we rationalize that we’re not shy just private. After all, isn’t that what introverts are all about? Living and working in their minds? Yes, but some love it! They’re happy with it. For example, take Mark […]

Tonight we turn ahead the clocks. My whole calendar moved forward very fast this winter. I hope I conveyed in some of my blogs just how wonderful San Miguel de Allende can be and this winter it treated me perhaps more superbly than ever. I am so grateful for it; my energy is returning,hurrah, after 4 months of dense dose chemo and […]

In the 1990’s most Americans in SMA wore happy faces. We do now too, but we take SMA more for granted. Back then we were overjoyed because brilliant, bright sunshine warmed our hearts and bodies; scintillating art openings, musical events and theatrical productions surrounded us; ripe fruits and vegetables amazed us; colorful plants and fabrics […]

Setting topics from one month to another does get me going. But did I say publicity and energy? How does someone who has always been shy publicize themselves? For me it’s kind of like a Janus act; for twelve years while directing Danforth Gallery in Portland, Maine, I competed for television, newspaper and radio publicity […]

“Helen Rivas-Rose will talk about her new book Brave at the Kennebunk Library on September 24th.” It was the most incredibly amazing moment in my life but I didn’t see it that way it for days. For weeks I organized the material and when my talk was written I read it aloud daily for a […]