Author Archives
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You’ve been framed
I seem to be most creative when I can only devote a small, niggling amount of time to a project or idea. Though my time is consumed with lots of important tasks involving work or family, those small, stolen moments… Read More ›
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I wish I were in hot water
It’s bitterly cold and dark outside. You decide that a hot shower is just the ticket to relax and warm your bones. You run the shower. Cold. You run it some more. Cold. You check the sinks around the house…. Read More ›
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For Auld Lang Syne
It’s hard to listen to this tune without waxing nostalgic and growing a bit teary-eyed as I remember old friends from long ago whom I haven’t seen in years. I read somewhere that “everyone you ever meet, you first met… Read More ›
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Divesting in the New Year
New Year’s resolutions are bogus. They seem like a good idea but they don’t work. New year, clean slate, good intentions…all true but who has the will power? In fact, I sometimes sabotage my resolutions on the very day that I… Read More ›
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The Shortest Day of the Year
The the Winter Solstice officially occured at approximately 6:37 this evening. Today, there has been less light and more darkness than any other day in the calendar year. The landscape is sere, a cold wind blows, and the prospect of three… Read More ›
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Hello Winter
Winter. Cold. Frigid. Icy. Treacherous. Daunting. Sparkling. Surprising. Bleaching. Reducing.The winter solstice moves closer. The days shrink. Freedom adumbrates. I draw closer to the computer ; I stock up on flashlight batteries and solar powered radios. I watch the first flakes… Read More ›
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Sounds in the forest
It’s disheartening, though predictable, that no one seems to be reading my blog, based on the dearth of unprompted comments. If I give the URL to friends and relatives, they give it a polite look-see, but clearly what I say and how I… Read More ›
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Details
I was thinking about details. Details can be superfluous, annoying or painful distractions that divert us from the bigger picture or more profound thoughts…the thick scudding clouds, a scratchy throat, a list of grocery staples, a basket of unpaid bills, a… Read More ›
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What’s it all about?
What is the point? I’m not the only sixty- something who asks that question. All those elections, all those crises, all that drama, all those people in my life, all those sleepless nights and all those years…what do they add… Read More ›
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Bare Ruined Choirs
It has been downhill since mom’s 90th birthday. She has been moved to assisted living and grows frailer and more unsteady in mind and body. Two hospitalizations in November- the most recent on Thanksgiving day- have taken their toll and she grows thinner… Read More ›
Now we are Sixty 