Happy first day of spring! (For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, of course). I’m still on my self-proclaimed spring break, planting poppies and savoring strawberries. Making art and lingering at an outdoor cafe. Planning a weekend adventure at the beach. In the midst of all this, it occurred to me that you might … Continue reading
Well hello there. And happy summer solstice! I sure did miss you. But I’m back from my blogging hiatus now. I think. Maybe. (How’s that for equivocating?) Apart from the equivocating, though, I really want to tell you what I’ve been up to the past 15 months. Of course, I spent many hours in pursuit … Continue reading
Around this time last year I was writing about home. Pondering its nature and wondering what it means to go back. Reminding myself that to truly appreciate home, we have to leave it first. So in the final post of the series, I wrote: Leave home we do, throughout our lives. But I don’t just mean those … Continue reading
Is it just me? Can you feel it? A change in the air? Maybe it’s simply the faintest scent of fall, carried in on the delta breezes during late August. Maybe it’s hard wiring, an internal system of checks and balances that keeps us in tune with nature’s cycles. Maybe it’s my own passage through … Continue reading
In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams Ahhhh, August. That time of year, in my neck of the woods, when the thermometer has been known to hit the century mark. The last full month of summer. Also known as the dog days. By the way, I sure like that phrase: dog days of … Continue reading
THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER LIVES OUT THERE. I first heard this sentiment on a television show, spoken by a woman who had reinvented herself at midlife. She’d left behind a life that no longer suited her, and created one filled with zest and enthusiasm. Always on the trail of such stories of personal … Continue reading
By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life. -Robert Bly Here’s something you probably don’t know about me: I miss stuff. For instance, American Idol was on television for seven … Continue reading
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh Lights turned low. Soothing music. A warm bath. Steaming cups of chamomile tea. Candles burning, then extinguished. All good ways to usher in the end of the day. On those nights when … Continue reading
Last week when I was writing about the hallway of transition an unexpected visitor arrived at my imagination’s door, unbidden. Without calling ahead, Blanche Dubois aimlessly wandered across my visual landscape in her rhinestone tiara and yellowing ball gown, looking forlorn and rather lost. And then, back in the real world, I serendipitously discovered that … Continue reading
When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. -Rick Jarow It was a welcome surprise. The unexpected email arrived in my inbox earlier this week, from two former students. I haven’t seen them in well over a year, and in that time they’ve graduated and moved … Continue reading
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