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A Tribute

My first post for this blog appeared on January 19, 2017, exactly two years ago today.  This is what I wrote: “My husband Keith and I were squeezed together with

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A Poem for Christmas 🔔

In 1862, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and staunch abolitionist, sent his son off to fight for the Union in America’s Civil War. When he received the news that the young

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Light My Fire

Long before Christmas or Hanukkah or many of the other festivals celebrated at this time of year, Stone Age farmers and their families entered a Neolithic passage tomb on the

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Just Sit There

I had two appointments last Thursday, one at 10 and the second after noon. Planning ahead for the 10 o’clock I was ready to leave at 9, since I would

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Bird Watching

“This morning the redbird’s eggs/ have hatched and already the chicks/ are chirping for food. They don’t/know where it is coming from, they/ just keep shouting, ‘More! More!’”  Mary Oliver

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Shaping a New Tomorrow

  She came to this place for the first time, to a cabin overlooking the lake, when she was not quite twenty. She was with a family she had known

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A few thoughts

As summer draws down into fall and many of us prepare to get back to business as usual, I’d like to share with you some words of wisdom from writers,

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Good News of the Week in Review

On Saturdays the New York Times includes several short paragraphs  highlighting some good news items from the previous week.  That’s where I turn first, before tackling the rest of the

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Remembering April

Is April the cruellest month?  T.S. Eliot seemed to think so. “April is the cruellest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.”

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Fred Rogers first came through his front door and into our homes fifty years ago.  He put on his sneakers and his cardigan and welcomed everyone to his neighborhood.  My

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