Solstice Thoughts
2024 has been a mixed bag—like every year, I guess. I was blessed to have the resources to remodel my kitchen! It was a long, messy process, unpleasant at times [...]
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Dec, 2024
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Dec, 2024
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. As you may know she is one of the many manifestations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, who has deigned to [...]
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Dec, 2024
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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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, the [...]
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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 was [...]
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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 pale [...]
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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 disposal. [...]