[Note to those whose heart just skipped a beat – it wasn’t my stick.] I was in a professional office building the other day, waiting for an appointment. The building is home to accountants, attorneys, and more therapists than you imagined would be necessary in such a small concentration of square footage. It’s a […]
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EPT Stick in the Women’s Restroom
Posted in Isolation/Belonging, Motherhood, Women on March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Slowly Rereading Favorite Poems
Posted in Motherhood, Poetry, Reminiscences, Romance on November 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m still thinking about poetry, poems, and, of course, me. I began re-reading some old favorites, just to see what would happen. And it happened – they invited me to leave the literal, and I followed.
The Matinee
Posted in Aging, Masculinity, Motherhood, Sons, Theater, Young Love on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s summer: the time of baseball games, waterskiing, overnight camping, barbeques, boating and swimming and biking and . . . outdoor musicals. Brigadoon was on this year’s docket at our local theatre-in-the-forest. I’ve always like this story of a perfect place lost in the mists but for one day every hundred years. The promise of […]
Lancelot is Growing Up
Posted in Growing up, Motherhood, Sons on August 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At times, my 10-year-old seems quite grown up, with opinions and ideas about how the world works that are sophisticated and have an internal logic, even if they don’t always match facts that he hasn’t yet encountered about the world. At other times, he still responds as the young boy he is. He is both, […]
The Benefit of an Enemy
Posted in Children, Friendship, Motherhood, Natural World on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day I was in charge of 4 10-year-old boys for a beach adventure, so there was digging, planning, creating the world’s most intricate city of sand. A few times one boy chose more solitary pursuits while the others built and dug; he seamlessly joined and left the group to fly a kite, kick […]