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 of my 2017 Independence Day

Dear Readers,                  I will be taking a six-month break from this blog in order to compile and publish a selection from the

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 shoppers swarmed past, until a

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 journey back towards the sun.

  It never fails. The seasons change and I become like a woman possessed. First, the garden.  As soon as the snow melts in spring and a frost seems unlikely,

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 to get a sandwich and

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./ So Eden sank to grief,/

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 another night they searched. On

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 one of the worst droughts

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, nameless ones; silenced, invisible. Thus,

Not being familiar with text-speak, I have just now learned that IRL means: In Real Life; as opposed, I guess, to being onscreen. Funny, all this time I thought I

I’ve heard the word “apocalypse” a lot recently. Not surprising, actually, as 2020 gave us its fair share of disasters: fires, floods, despair, destruction, earthquakes, hurricanes, mendacity, insurrection and, especially,