How Madelaine Survives Quarantine
Written with my Thursday night writing group (now meeting on Zoom!) with the prompts: one red shoe and oh, dear. Madelaine wore one red shoe and one green shoe because [...]
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Jun, 2020
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Jun, 2020
The Story of My Hydrangea Bush
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was dipping into Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, an anthology of poetry and writing prompts written for [...]
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Jun, 2020
Black Lives Matter
This has been a very upsetting couple of weeks, but if you’re paying attention you already know that. Because of the continuing pandemic, I choose to be mostly homebound, writing, [...]
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May, 2020
Continued Sheltering, part three
Greetings! If you’re a regular reader, you know the past two weeks I’ve suggested some prayers that I’ve found helpful, and I continue to encourage everyone to write prayers and [...]
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May, 2020
A Prayer for Trying Times
This week I want to share a prayer my late friend Craig taught me. It’s very simple: “Release into Essence.” Essence was Craig's word for Divine Energy or God. It’s [...]
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May, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place, part 2
Greetings to everyone who is sheltering in place as I am. How are you? I am fine. There are many things we could complain about—and if that’s what you want [...]
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Apr, 2020
Praise Poem
I want to wish everyone a peaceful Holy Week, and a Blessed Easter. I wrote this poem a few months ago. I'd seen another praise poem, written like this, designed [...]
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Mar, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place
When I was 21 I went to Europe on a five-week student tour with my best friends. On our last day we were in England, and we went on a [...]
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Mar, 2020
Little Fires Everywhere, a consideration of race and class in America
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is a well-written, topical book, an engrossing read, and the basis for a brand-new series starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon on Hulu. I [...]
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Feb, 2020
The World That We Knew, a review
Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew” is an achingly beautiful fairy tale about the Holocaust. Her novel emphasizes the plight of children separated from their parents: Jewish children and [...]