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What The Years Have Done
Cars are parked in the grass, the overflow under the trees, because the short gravel driveway is already tightly stacked with cars. The noses of the cars all point to the back door, where there is only...
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Struggling Through The Comets
I was hooked when I watched The Bethlehem Star a few years ago. There was something mesmerizing about those stars that have a definite, historical and future path, and are traveling onward on a...
View ArticleSolid, Like a Rock
When I interviewed this sweet lady, there was no sign of quivering, shaking of panic. Yet, she was recalling years she spent living on the streets with her toddler sons — one time even pregnant. Read...
View ArticlePneumonia
There’s something about the relief that comes when they tell you. When you learn that there’s a reason your arms are so tired from trying; that the over the counter medicines and the herbs are having...
View ArticleOn A Bad Day, I Like Nothing More Than Watching That Young Pope Pray
On a horrific day last week, when everything was going wrong, and I was powerless to stop it, I found myself wishing I could just sit down and watch Jude Law pray. Law portrays Pope Pius XIII in HBO’s...
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A Scattering of Memories
They scatter like pieces of glitter. Suddenly, the thought of gathering them all together for a group shot is just about as horrifying as being dropped out in the middle of an ocean and fighting the...
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What Moms Don’t Tell
Honestly, going through this phase of motherhood — there’s no delicate way to put it — is painful. They are adamant about paving their own way through the world, and no amount of blueberry pancakes or...
View ArticleA Cloud In The Sky Won’t Make A Difference
I decided to fall head first into the romanticism of the solar eclipse that is zooming its way to a streak across the United States. We do not live in the “total” path area –but, because of my...
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Origami in Retrospect
He’s had a request to make some origami dresses for a “client.” As an added benefit, he’s going to make a centerpiece — but he was at a loss of what to make. But I wasn’t. I started going through the...
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Out of All The Christmas Books, This Is The One
Out of all of the books I have read to the boys over the years, this book, in fact, this page, was the most treasured one of all. Here we have Mrs. Clause rolling out cookie dough, while the elves work...
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Conquering Some Demons
Another snow day, the kids wanted to go skiing, they needed a driver. Why not me? And as I pondered what it would be like to work in the lodge, writing on my laptop, I realized I had no deadlines. In...
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Transcendence Leaves Us With Just Enough
If you had told me 40 some years ago, when I was sitting in my cousin’s bedroom listening to the 45 of American Pie, that one night, I would drive home from a track meet with my son and his friends,...
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The Lucky Ones
This beautiful onion was left in the lake house all winter long, from some time last fall. Trapped in the dark cold, it managed to create life for three new onions that are drawing nutrients from its...
View ArticleThe Visit
Before I reached down to touch her, I said her name, so that she wouldn’t be frightened. As soon as she heard the first sounds of my voice, she looked toward me with eyes that could not see me and...
View ArticleI Knew So Much When I Was 40
But, now, I’m my 50s, I am much humbler. I am in awe at how vast and wonderful the world is, and how there is not just one or even three ways to do something — but one million. This is a vast and...
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Then, I Would Have Finally Had My Daughter
When Rosie was in the hospital, she needed two blood transfusions to stop the blood from filling up in her lungs, from the rat poison she ingested. Rosie leaving the hospital… a little drugged, no...
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Mining The Best Memories
There’s a time and place for Stephen King, no doubt… but in a world full of incessant darkness, this is not the time. Her world is already dark; she is blind. The nursing home does provide her with...
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