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Tag Archives: motherhood
What a Painting Reveals
My remarkable friend Naomi in Kyoto, has generously featured a collage of mine on her website’s Chasing Writing in Art link. It’s humbling to be there with so many amazing artists. Here’s my collage and a few words. Please check out Naomi’s site … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Bosnian war, Grief, healing, Kyoto, memoir, motherhood, suicide, time, United Nations, war, writing
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A Room of My Own
The chunk of time and solitude I find necessary to write a blog post never appeared last week. Some mornings I managed to grab a half-hour or so before work to hack away at my memoir (still!) but I need … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal Musings
Tagged back to school, garden, light, meditation, memoir, morning, motherhood, nature, seasons, solitude, time, work, writing
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Exquisite Grief
These last (I hope) wintry days, I want to hunker down and hibernate. Call me when the daffodils are in bloom and all the last chunks of snow have melted. I’ll be reading. While not able to hide out under … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal Musings
Tagged books, books on grief, Grief, healing, memoir, motherhood, suicide, time
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Love for A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Brazilian guy who cleans the bookstore, speaks only a few words of English. I always say good morning and make small talk, but he’s not friendly and I think he’d rather I didn’t. He wears one of those blue-tooth … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, books, Japan, journal, Love, meditation, motherhood, neighborhood, solitude, time, travel, United Nations, work
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What a Difference a Day Makes…
Yesterday morning I shuffled out of the house to walk Tetley, simultaneously grouchy about and awestruck by the beauty of the snow that had fallen overnight. My neighborhood looked like a black-and-white movie Twenty-four little hours later, I pulled into … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal Musings
Tagged anxiety, breathing, cancer, garden, learning to relax, light, morning, motherhood, nature, neighborhood, Spring, time, walks
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“What Saves Us All Is Love”
Shadowed by the deaths of little children and their teachers, the holiday season in Connecticut passed heavy with sadness. Thoughts of grieving neighbors tempered every day. As I moved through my days at the bookstore, acknowledgement was shared in the … Continue reading
Eggplant Rescue and a Re-discovered Cookbook
We’re a little sick of eggplant around here. We joined a different CSA this year because the previous one (that I loved – every week a new culinary adventure of heirlooms and weird vegetables) no longer drops at a convenient … Continue reading
The Expatriate’s Itch
In the early hours of the morning I woke not sure of where I was. Italy? Kyoto? Croatia or some other place I once lived long enough for the exotic to become familiar? Sometimes I feel transported in time and … Continue reading
Wishing
I became obsessed with wishing at a very early age. My bedtime ritual included peering through the screened window out over neighboring Bronx buildings into the smoggy city sky and wishing on the first star I saw that night. Now … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal Musings
Tagged healing, lottery, meditation, motherhood, neighborhood, time, writing
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Don’t Go to Bed Angry – A Lesson Remembered
Anger should not be allowed in bed at night. Instead of disappearing into a blissful dream state, the grinding of my teeth is the only unconsciousness happening. Snippy sentences replay over and over, pithier responses conjured. Dogs I didn’t know … Continue reading