Past, Present. Perfect
I’m not yet to the grandparent part of my life so when my niece Rachel arranged to stop by for lunch on her trip from Virginia to Maine, I was […]
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Long Time Passing
It looked like the 4th of July. American flags lined the street, poles stuck in the grass. Families, groups of teenagers on their own, adults on their own, but talking […]
Stones On the Heart
Prime time television cop shows are filled with it. Massachusetts’ Senator Scott Brown recently took to the airwaves about it. When a family friend posted on Facebook this week that he […]
Birthin’ Babes and Books
I knew about as much about birthin’ books as I did babies. Us women are supposed to just know how it goes. Us writers are supposed to know how it goes. […]
Beau’s Hot Chocolate
It is deep midwinter and I have just returned from a lovely holiday in London with family and extensions of family. Because Dickens was my first love as a reader, […]
Writing Love on Her Arms
Life changes when there is love. On Friday the 13th I participated in “To Write Love on Her Arms” day. It was one of those social movements–in this case an effort to […]