You Say It’s Your Birthday
Starting out my post-graduate studies, I never imagined that the 17th century would be my area of literary and historical focus. Initially, the poetry of the romantic period attracted me. The…
never again
They have been shaken to their core. -Jeremy Diamond, CNN, southern Israel i was in seventh grade during the six-day Yom Kippur war of 1967. I just remember sitting in…
Feeling Home
I find home in slots of time, in slants of light. I feel it closest at dawn when night and day meld and mingle awhile before they drift apart. -Karen…
Old Friends
I am up in Traverse City, Michigan. I am in love with this town. Of course, it is not January or February. Brutal. My best bud from college lives up here now,…
Do You Believe in . . .
I am not crazy. Eccentric — maybe. But not crazy. Juju/Woowoo not my thing. But . . . My ‘Our Mackinac Island Scattering’ blog (July 28, 2022) describes scattering my…
Fear of Failure
Fear of failure: Did you know there is an actual term for it? It is atychiphobia, (pronounced a-tick-e-phobia) kakorraphiophobia (pronounced kak-or-rhaph-io-phobia) is the fear of rejection. I grew up in a…
Ollie Ollie In Free
Friday evening. Frazzled from a hard week. Second-guessing my decision to go to an outdoor Bonnie Raitt concert, even if it was with my dear friend, Sarah Lee. Yes, Sarah…
In Your Face
I am not prude. Read Rain Dodging and you will see that I lived a few ‘wild child’ decades! But something is really rubbing me the wrong way. Bare Baby Bellies IMO,…
Thirteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-two minutes: A Look at Memory
Thirteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-two minutesThirteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-two meals to planThirteen thousand, six hundred and sixty-two minutesHow do you measure? Measure a year? In daylights,In sunsets,In midnights,In…
The Invisibility Club
Starting out my post-graduate studies, I never imagined that the 17th century would be my area of literary and historical focus. Initially, the poetry of the romantic period attracted me. The…