Seeing the Trees
It is wet and chilly outside and what I really want to do is pop in either a Harry Potter movie or all of the Jane Austen movies and finish knitting the spring scarf I started as we drove to...
View ArticleFor the Graduates
Full speed ahead, you go Eyes wide, heart open, Mouth shut. Until, of course, it needs to open and out comes a song you never meant to sing. Notes you never knew you knew. Full speed ahead, you go...
View Article#yesallwomen
As usual, I’m late to the #YesAllWomen party (?). Or am I. I was thinking about it as I cleaned house yesterday, thought about all that I told my daughters as they left for college: “don’t accept open...
View ArticleLegacy
My middle daughter and I spent Thursday visiting the works of Marc Chagall, Georges Seurat, El Greco, Georgia O’Keefe and a bunch of other artists. I’m not schooled in art enough to speak eloquently of...
View ArticleUnravelling
I was so relieved when I finished knitting a project the other night. Finally!100+ yards of linen/cotton yarn coaxed into a garment, of sorts. Yay! And then I tried it on. And, well, lets just say...
View ArticleWorry not
Worry not My identity has been found lurking in another purse being held in place by a clamp and a key Worry not now that it is found and sitting in the light glowing on my desk we know other lost...
View ArticleGrace … or something like it
My go-to music on my drive to-from work is usually Mumford & Sons–mostly because I can easily tell Siri to “play Mumford” and get at least an hours worth of soul-soothing or fast-driving tune-age....
View ArticleOn doubt, faith, and God’s cell number
TinaLBPorter:I just came across this post today, lying in my sick bed with that same fluffy cat across my lap and remembered that the house phone rang this morning and it WAS a four-digit number, but...
View ArticleNectarine Season
I was already dreadfully late this morning when I realized that my husband had finished off the coffee I had planned on pouring into my travel mug. I decided that people would rather see me fully...
View ArticleCover Letter
Ask me what I learned and I will tell you that you don’t ask a poet to write policy You ask a poet to put shape to wordy things to intangibles and lovelies to pain–the reasons for the policies I...
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