Scent of Rain
=I’m the crazy one. The one who still feels jubilant when it starts to pour. Even after the last days of rain, I’m begging for more. I think it’s the […]
Life
One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, passed away yesterday. She was 83. How quickly we turn one page to the next, and yet so much undone. I want her […]
A Lifetime
Someone I held dear to my heart unexpectedly left the earth last week. Benita Beth Barden – Bebe, my sister-in-law, was a special and remarkable woman. She was the sister […]
Afternoon Walking …
Walking with no destination. No particular goal except to place one foot in front of the other. Let the mind slip freely from the ‘to do list’ and to focus […]
Sundays …
Sunday mornings .. The NY Times and hot coffee. Turn off the ‘do’ brain and activate the ‘be’ brain. Refreshing. Recharging. Renewing. Outside, a pickup game of basketball. Young men […]
Politics Not as Usual
There have always been trying times – it’s part of being human and engaged. But in my adult life, I do not recall circumstances where politics have been as visceral […]
Typing 101- or there is more life for a Selectric
After dreaming of my old IBM Selectric, close encounters with typing machines have become amplified, like some kind of knock-knock homage to a vintage methods of recording thoughts. These machines pop up at unexpected places. […]
The Sound of the Selectric
I dreamt of the Selectric. The now-vintage IBM machine that was the host for countless drafts of my stories, poems, journal entries .. mental wanderings in the last century. In […]
The Third Third
Sixty-six years I’ve been hugging this spinning blue planet. Sixty-six years I’ve been tasting, touching, feeling, seeing, hearing … Evaluating, discerning, analyzing, creating, expressing … I stand now on the […]
MOM & ME
26 may 2015 Sixty-six years ago, I was my mother’s 22nd birthday gift . She said I came out kicking and screaming (or so she was told – she was […]
