Barbara’s Riffs on Life

‘Wrestling with God’: A Gift for the Believers on Your List — And the Skeptics

“Wrestling with God” is great gift for the believers on your list — also the skeptics, atheists and spiritual-but-not-religious. Read more.

I’m thankful for a window. It’s small but it opens onto everything: a tree. A bird. A squirrel. Not much. But in fact everything. Read more.

Could this garden be saved? My California natives were looking bleak. A trip to the local native plant nurseries was in order. Read more.

My husband is the hero of my next book. I wanted it all — family and career. And Jon made it possible. Read more.

Widowed: Do I still miss him? Not really. Missing Jon is not the shape my grief takes. Most days. Read more.

I’m a grammar geek and I’m old: I don’t get nauseous. I’ve never received a kudo. And I never, ever lay on my yoga mat. Read more.