Interdependence Day
This morning, I am taking a break from my blog break. Given the state of our country, I have decided to send out a portion… Read More »Interdependence Day
This morning, I am taking a break from my blog break. Given the state of our country, I have decided to send out a portion… Read More »Interdependence Day
Dear Readers, I will be taking a six-month break from this blog in order to compile and… Read More »A Brief Hiatus
A woman, her arms full of shopping bags, fell face first on the busy sidewalk, knocking out her wind and sending the bags flying. Holiday… Read More »By My Side
Last night we slept through the longest night of the year, reminding us that this year is waning and the earth will begin its slow… Read More »In This Bleak Midwinter, Hope
It never fails. The seasons change and I become like a woman possessed. First, the garden. As soon as the snow melts in spring… Read More »For Everything There is a Season
I had driven Keith to a clinic around noon for his cataract procedure. Since he would be there for two to three hours, I went… Read More »One Afternoon
Nature’s first green is gold,/ Her hardest hue to hold./ Her early leaf’s a flower;/ but only for an hour./ Then leaf subsides to leaf./… Read More »Autumn Gold
A child was lost in a vast Iowan cornfield. Family and friends searched all day and through the night, to no avail. Another day and… Read More »A Parable for Our Time
It may be difficult to grasp on this chilly, wet Memorial Day weekend in Massachusetts that the western United States is in the middle of… Read More »Drought…and Hope
Indigenous populations. Women. People of color. Victims of poverty, injustice, abuse and white supremacy; their voices are drowned, ignored and dismissed. They are the faceless,… Read More »Silenced