PinnedMember-onlyWAITING AND WANDERINGPutting the Phone Down For someone who was trying to minimize technology pre2020, Covid time has instead forced me into submission to all things digital. And this hasn’t been a good thing for my personal constitution. I wish I could say after Covid because it would be such a neat and tidy bookend to…Nature3 min readNature3 min read
Jul 21, 2022Member-onlyCOSMOSWhat is the point? I find myself thinking. Nothing really seems that important anymore, no sense of urgency or emotional surge to get “it” done. Move my space around, add a pergola, finish the kitchen, buy another typewriter, have guests come over for a weekend, all part of my daily routine I call my life, minus the thrill I used to get as it approached and the…Nature4 min readNature4 min read
Jul 6, 2022Member-onlyDON’T STOP BELIEVIN’!Back in the early nineties, when I was newly married, we went on a road trip with my in laws to Six Flags, a roller coaster park in New Jersey. …Life5 min readLife5 min read
Jun 12, 2022Member-onlyROAD TRIPWhere You Stand is Holy Ground. This was the small sign I noticed when I happened to glance to my right while waiting at a stop light in front of a Congregationalist church the other day. …Travel4 min readTravel4 min read
Feb 22, 2022Member-onlyFEBRUARYThe light is lengthening. There is that feeling in the air we New Englanders feel when the sunlight and climbing temperatures show up like a bouquet of flowers on a random day that isn’t your birthday. There is a brightness to those days, a gift in the the throes of a New England…Poetry2 min readPoetry2 min read
Dec 22, 2021Member-onlyShaken Not StirredAnother year in reflection- pivots, and more resilience than any of us have thought possible. Trips made, trips canceled. Business started, stopped, changed, reinvented. Friendships evolved. New friendships started, old friendships moved on. Family dynamics shifted. Births and engagements, large weddings, small weddings, attending concerts, events again, events canceled, deaths. …Covid-195 min readCovid-195 min read
Nov 20, 2021Member-onlyRemembering My Brother (again)“The the only good thing about dying young is that everyone will remember you that way. All my friends will age, but in people’s minds, they will only see me as I am right now in my twenties.” This is what my brother said to me as he took a…Grief And Loss7 min readGrief And Loss7 min read
Aug 26, 2021Member-onlyODE TO MY GRANDMOTHERI have written so often about my Grandfather, but my Grandmother, Isabelle, was so important in my life as well. Today is her Yahrzeit — in Judaism, the anniversary of the death of a parent or close relative. She died two days after her 71st wedding anniversary and two months…Grandparents10 min readGrandparents10 min read
Jul 25, 2021Member-onlyTIME TO RAMBLE ONArms and hands up in the air, fist pumping, air drumming, singing every word, screaming like we were on roller coasters, we gathered last night as a group of old rockers. Finally. After a year without music gatherings, my friends and I used our — one year later — postponed…Rock And Roll6 min readRock And Roll6 min read
Jul 15, 2021Member-onlyEYE TO EYE“When is your Christmas?” I would often be asked this seemingly innocent question when I was newly married. That would often be followed a few months later with “When is your Easter?” The people asking this would be referring to Hanukkah and Passover as their reference points. I learned to…Life Lessons8 min readLife Lessons8 min read
