You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching and painting, Swimming, fencing, … Read More
Yesterday as I walked through the living room, I passed the bowl of apples on the small round side table next to my chair. I caught the scent of the apples, Granny Smiths and Lady Pinks, which sometimes happens, and … Read More
later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere —Warsan Shire Heart breaking, I wondered, what can I do? And … Read More
There’s a Nightmare in My Closet is the name of a children’s book that I have read since my own now adult children were very young. It’s about the phenomenon that we have seen in children or experienced ourselves as … Read More