“One of the reasons people get old – lose their aliveness – is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” ~Richard Leider “There isn’t even room for a puppy to lie down.” That’s how one friend described our other friend’s house. Patty had a neurological episode, similar to a stroke. When it…
Sure, I created this mess. I get inspiration in weird places, from a combination of observing people and sightseeing – even in my hometown. So I find a scrap of paper and a writing instrument (usually I can only find a crayon in my purse, somehow pens go the way of sock mates) and write…
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. …What a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!” ― Dante, The Divine Comedy Many years ago, I was recently graduated, newly married, and…
Oh the weather outside is frightful/but the fire is so delightful/and since there’s no place to go… pick up a good book! We have no choice – reading brings us a world only our own imagination enhances. Open a book and escape into another world. Whether you have another flurry of flakes or a deluge…
Last year’s Ash Wednesday was near the end of February. The weekend after Lent began, we met our friends, Jane and her husband, in Times Square for dinner and a musical. Wow—were we innocent, or naïve? We had begun hearing about a virus, but it still seemed somewhere over there. No qualms about riding in…
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