What Did You Say?

written for Woman’s Day It took me years to admit I had a hearing problem. Don’t make the same mistake. I BEGAN using hearing aids in both ears two years ago, just before my 44th birthday and 15 years after a doctor first recommended I get them. My hearing had...
This Little Light of Mine

This Little Light of Mine

written for Audubon They’re brighter, cheaper in the long run, and fit most fixtures. Plus compact fluorescents can be a force in fighting global warming. So what are you waiting for? If you’ve visited a home improvement or discount store lately, maybe you noticed...
Alone with Wolves

Alone with Wolves

From a distance, a camera crew captured Gudrun Pflueger’s encounter with coast wolves. MATTHEY FILMS written for Appalachia journal Gudrun Pflueger believes that a buried instinct to handle predators saved her in a wilderness meadow Gudrun Pflueger sat alone in...

A Unique Talent for Being Herself

Written for The Day The death of the Nut Museum curator came very quietly on Jan. 28 in a nursing home a few minutes’ drive from the mansion in Old Lyme, Connecticut, she had still hoped to reclaim. But Elizabeth Tashjian, the painter and sculptor who became...