This is my third attempt at writing about this subject. I wrote valiantly and quickly the first time, with ideas flowing from my heart. When I finished, I had five pages, which I already knew was way too long, but cutting anything out was not an option for me. So … Read More
“Alice replied, ‘I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.’“ Do you know this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? It’s a … Read More
“Come closer now and listen. There is no other life than this … [By changing what came before] you would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.” from Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro How are you at accepting the “what is?” I don’t mean giving up. I … Read More
Have you ever turned yourself over to a particular struggle on a regular basis? Well, now that it is May and both taxes and license renewal are completed again, and I have regained my general equilibrium in life—for today—I will tell you that every two years in March, I hand … Read More