I have been struggling to write this on time for it to post on its scheduled date of December 1. I have made a few starts on paper that seem to go nowhere and a few more going on in my head as thoughts come to me and then float … 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 looking back at them, after a quick mental check of … 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 children when we awakened from a bad dream and were … Read More
This is the greatest gift: to choose a life one can admire oneself for living. — Mary Gordon, The Company of Women. Have you chosen a life that you can admire yourself for living? Do you even have the sense that you’ve chosen your life at all? I keep thinking about that … Read More