Our family welcomes you, Leanne. Whenever there is marriage, it is a vote of confidence in love and in the future. We welcome you to our family. You and Cyrus were nurtured in the environs and soils of countries on different continents, but somehow had a flash of recognition* and […]
One of the simple pleasures of my life is dining alone. I absolutely adore having a good meal in a cozy seat for breakfast, lunch or dinner all by my lonesome. I discovered this pleasure when I was 20. I’d dropped out of school, left Boston, and was back home […]
A quiet moment. Did you already have your quiet moment, month, year or decade? Did you recognize the peace, the calm, and incident-free period when it occurred? Did you feel it – fully? Did you congratulate yourself that your efforts were keeping everything in check? Did you think, “That’s just […]
I had originally hoped to post a poem a day during Poetry Month (April) which has officially ended although there’s a big celebration of poetry, Mass Poetry Festival in Salem from May 1-3, featuring such poets as Rita Dove, Nick Flynn and Marge Piercy. Work obligations interfered with life desires […]
Fifteen minutes today. A quiet place in the house – usually the sofa, blinds closed. I start out with the Lord’s Prayer taught to me when I was a little girl. I pray for health mercies, traveling mercies, peace-of-mind mercies, companionship mercies, finding a job mercies and so on for […]
