My friend called to tell me she’d fallen while hiking and might have to have an MRI for the slight pain she had in her side. Fallen while hiking. Four...
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It has found a permanent place in my life now. It arrives as a tsunami. Leaving me incapable of breath. Underwater for months and years. And then adrift. My son...
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I wonder if the view is better through the window? Framed as a painting might be. Divided into a quadriptych of individual scenes? The window gives me focus. Reality....
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I don’t know what underwear you’re wearing. High-waisted cotton for comfort? A thong for seduction? None….so you have no panty line in your good black pants? I don’t know how...
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Remember the phrase, “Put a little zip in your step.”? I’m confused about the zip. Some mornings I will consciously tell myself I need a little zip. To walk with...
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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi. Stage name...Rudolf Valentino. If you remember him at all, it’s probably as “The Sheik”, head-wrapped and in embrace with a swooning Agnes Ayers. Valentino...
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I like to think of Feb-roo-airy as the next big holiday season. We’re talking about a month that starts off with Punxsutawney Phil and ends with Sadie Hawkins. And...
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My girlfriend called me about eight A.M. this morning. I was lying flat in bed. I had pulled out my back while suffering through the worst bout of stomach virus...
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I always make a list of New Year’s resolutions. In the past, those resolutions were based on what I won’t do, rather than what I will. I won’t...
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My daughter Lily has always been a softie. She lives in New York now and her “softiness” is really being tested. She, like many of us, cannot walk past...
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I read a magazine article which said that happiness comes from the ability to focus on something that gives us pleasure, absorb it, and then savor it. As I...
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There’s a wonderful book, “The Polar Express”, about a boy on the cusp of not believing in Santa. He’s whisked away in the middle of the night by a bullet...
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I’m pondering the whole question of loyalty to country. Not too long ago people were more identified by town. Revolutionary days. People were “of Concord”. Or “of Saratoga”. State was...
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We were best friends.. I remember going to Nancy Cook’s house for sleepovers. We were best friends. I think, in large part, because of those sleepovers. We’d eat kugel under...
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Thanksgiving Roll the calendar back about three hundred and ninety-five years and imagine the governor has invited the local chief and a few braves over to dinner to join you...
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I wonder what the trump presidential library will be like. All the presidents do them. No books for starters. He doesn’t read them. Never has. Says he doesn’t have...
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I’m not sure if intimacy exists without touch. Maybe it does. But touch is what makes it true. You tell me things. How my very being is a velvet cushion...
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When my husband and I got together we decided to talk about what we both felt were the most important traits in someone you were about to spend your life...
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I told him all of it. Yesterday. Walking on the beach. The thoughts that keep cycling in my head that I don’t want to admit. That I don’t want...
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We all do things that no one knows we do. On occasional Tuesdays, if you can’t find me, I might be in the parking lot in front of the...
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A place of dog eared memories. Afghans crocheted by aunts no longer remembered. Corners bundled with pine walking sticks and wooden snowshoes. The wicker chair that sits rocking next to...
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I expect you to tell me everything. The really hard things that you think I’ll leave you for. I expect the tiles will feel cool when I lay my cheek...
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Have you ever noticed that everyone on Facebook….or Instagram…. is having a better time than you are? They have millions of friends. Often your friends. They’re social. They’re swimming in...
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I recently took a trip to the Dead Sea. Well, really to Israel. And the Dead Sea was there. If you remember your geography, the Dead Sea is bordered...
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Somehow along the way I’ve lost myself. I don’t work full time, so it’s up to me to manage myself. It hasn’t been going well. I’ve lost myself in the...
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It’s really my father’s fault. Everyday growing up, as I was going to school, he put on his tie and went to work. When he was 65, his company gave...
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I feel responsible for any relationship I’m in. If it works, I haven’t failed.. If it doesn’t , I have. I intellectually understand that a relationship is two-sided. You care...
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Focus, as I understand it, is another form of meditation. You concentrate on something and lose connection of all that’s spinning around you. Which is a good thing. My girlfriend...
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A wise friend explained to me that life is divided into three sections. Thirds. The first third has to do with family. Living with… or separating from. The second third...
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My husband is building a barn. He’s been doing this for three years. Without electricity. Like paul bunyan. He took a class in timber frame building several summers ago and...
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There were things I didn’t tell you. When I wrote to you to tell you I was still here, living in Idaho, a writer, with twins. When I wrote to...
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Men of a certain age? My husband’s there. And frankly, I’m not sure of the answer. He’s philosophic. “I’ve had a good life, mary. Provided for my children. Now I...
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Camping. This is an activity I really don’t get. Recently, I experienced my first backpacking overnight. We headed for the central Idaho destination with the bang-up name, Fourth of July...
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Old looks old If you grew up on the east coast you’ll remember those time forgotten factory towns that once were home to small industry. The towns coal miners and...
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I hate getting dressed. I feel like some giant aging paper doll…where my job is to hook on more paper every year to cover up all the exposed parts. Parts...
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Trees I was in Kenya last year. I carried one book on the animals. One on the birds and one on the flora and fauna. I studied the greater kudu...
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