My Mother’s Orange Tree
Once again, allow me to share one of my favorite family stories. . . On December 7th, 1941, my mother was at her friend Louise’s house. They were picking the [...]
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Dec, 2024
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Nov, 2024
Thanksgiving Prayers
This Thanksgiving I am grateful for family, friends, home, and the beauty of wilderness so close to where I live. I pray and affirm that we are a kind and [...]
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Nov, 2024
Lost and Found
As Thanksgiving approaches, I decided to share again this story from last year, a tale of abundance, gratitude, joy. Susan lost her glasses one morning, early before seven o’clock, while [...]
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Nov, 2024
When the Past Isn’t There
Written with the prompts: pull, how would you. . ., not sadness, more like frustration, tired of red, scent of lavender and stone, it was practice, by their silence, [...]
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Nov, 2024
Election Thoughts
When I was a child, I was lucky and I didn't know it. No one close to me died. When I became a teenager, my grandfather died, and I [...]
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Nov, 2024
Blue
I started writing this piece about my friend Craig several years ago. I thought I had lost it, but I found it again as I was purging files this summer. [...]
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Oct, 2024
Becoming a Crone
This is a reprint of another Halloween favorite. Enjoy! Pearl became a crone gradually. It started when she shed her pastel, party-mint-colored clothes, the pinks, the baby blues and [...]
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Oct, 2024
A Parable in Defense of Democracy
For decades there has been a debate about how government could and should raise money to pay for public services like schools and police protection, road maintenance and garbage [...]
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Oct, 2024
Interlude
Written with the prompts: wigwags are flashing, from clowns to canaries, love loves difficult things, when I break rules, late but kept driving, interlude, what am I doing, as timid [...]
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Oct, 2024
Schro and His Cat
Earlier this week while eating chocolate pastries with friends at a local coffee house, the subject came up of Physicist Erwin Shrodinger and his thought experiment involving a cat that [...]