Friends for Life, or Not
Winter this year is not whimsical. It’s two-foot deep hard packed snow, now turned icy. It’s temperatures that dip, and stay, in the teens. And it’s an economy tipped heavily toward unemployment. […]
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Snip, clip voila Valentine
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would […]
Possible dreams
The recent death of Sargent Shriver gave me pause to think about what inspires me. Beyond cerulean sky and luminous moons and almost anything my children do, it’s the people […]
Cold Comfort
I live in a pocket of Massachusetts that has its own weather zone, more like Montreal than Boston. When the temperature nose-dived this past week to minus 16 degrees, I […]
Plethora of Pumpkins
First, there are the teasing pumpkin bellies, stretched across fields, displaying their roundness like fertile young women in bikinis on the beach. Then come the seasonal signs, a bit battered from […]
Raining trees and writing
I sat with author Olivia Hoblitzelle on her back patio, talking about the re-release of her wonderful book, The Majesty of Your Loving, set for this fall. Originally an indie […]