June 25th, 2018 → 6:38 am
My son has left for summer camp (a 2-week overnight camp), and it is just so unnatural without him. His presence fills the house; his toys, his clothes, his smell… his laughter, his smiles, his questions… My son will return in two weeks, yet if his brief absence to this happy place is still so biting, I literally cannot imagine what the bereft parents at the U.S. border are going through right now.
Filed under: Blog & Other & Self/My Life
June 15th, 2018 → 6:06 am
Congratulations North America, for winning the bid to host the 2026 World Cup!
May 20th, 2018 → 5:45 am
Yes, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle yesterday. As it happens, my son woke up early too and we watched it together – that was fun! God bless the new couple, and may they enjoy years of happiness together.
May 18th, 2018 → 5:45 am
I made a new friend yesterday afternoon, and then met up with an old friend after work for coffee. A medium friend (what do you call someone who isn’t a new friend or an old friend, but a recent friend of 2-3 years??) I found out is leaving the United States at the end of summer and moving to the Netherlands; I don’t know when I’ll see her again. Friends come and friends go, they give pleasure and sadness, and if I could grasp some of them with hoops of steel, believe me, I would.
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May 1st, 2018 → 6:20 am
It broke my heart to read about the letter a woman wrote to her husband, just before she was put on the trains to Auschwitz. It is amazing the letter survived the Holocaust at all; it is even more astonishing how love, it seems, can shine through anything.
April 22nd, 2018 → 6:44 am
It’s Shakespeare’s birthday sometime this week (we don’t actually know the exact day), and in the interest of saluting the bard, I’m quoting some of his pithiest advice. There are some really good nuggets in there. Hard to pick a favorite, but… today maybe it’s… ‘Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.’
Filed under: Blog & Literature/Theatre/Art & Other
March 14th, 2018 → 5:43 am
Happy Pi Day! It’s difficult to find Shakespeare quotes about math, so I decided to go with literal pies. A pie a day is about as good as pi every day.
February 12th, 2018 → 6:46 am
‘Westward ho!’ was the cry of Thames watermen to attract westward bound passengers from London to Westminster. The phrase sounds so American to me, however. Westward ho, young man! Go West and make something of yourself!
I am not headed out West today, but I did finally return to my latest novel. Opened the dust-caked notes and began the long awaited edit of Draft #5. I purposely give myself space between drafts so as to let the material appear fresh again, but sometimes it’s hard. I’ve been wanting to get back to this for weeks now. I’m so excited!!
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February 3rd, 2018 → 5:01 am
“There is a history in all men’s lives…” – Henry IV, Part II
And this month we celebrate Black History, in the U.S. at least. Did you know that some countries celebrate it in October? I didn’t. Let’s all learn something new this month, and not be as ignorant as the Trumps.
January 27th, 2018 → 6:45 am
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” – Twelfth Night
The chocolate is on all the shelves and reminders that Valentine’s Day is coming up are everywhere. It’s making me contemplate the nature of the love in my life. We all love differently; we certainly all express it differently. God help us sometimes, for loving too much.