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March , 2026
The Down Comforter—and Other Routines
In May 2021, I left 85° F weather in India, where I was cooled by a tall swamp cooler running 24 hours a day—and moved (back) to America...to a part…
Rachel Naomi Remen, Her Story
Coma Survivor, MD, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Storyteller, Compassionate Listener My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of…
Christmas
Christmas Lyrics Came upon a midnight clear Hark! The Herald Angels sing Rudolph with your nose so bright I'm dreaming of a white Christmas by Bing…
Enter the Woods: Finding My Trees, And the Mother Trees Part Two
The Copper Beech of my childhood home was where I discovered my quiet place within.
Bees: Mothers, Emily Dickinson, and The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
My fuller interest in bees began years ago when my granddaughter, at about age eight, received two lessons in bees from her mother.
Reaching
Snow has fallen on autumn leaves.
"Now if You Would, Please Lie Down on Your Backs..."
Marge walks over to her bed.
Thought, Emotion, and Feeling Part One
1952 AUGUST Maple leaves wilt to plastic wrap in the tent of heat pitched over the day. Hidden cicadas buzz like the back doorbell under the thumb of a…
Turning Toward
My turning toward the big sky begins as I drive slowly home on an old, narrow, asphalt road where my tires occasionally dip into ditches.
Beauty: Part Two
I first heard of Charles Bukowski while taking a night course in Advanced Poetry Writing at New York University in Greenwich Village in New York.
Beauty Part One
I keep saying we've got to find another word for "beauty,"
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