Category: General

Connecting

Chris and I sat facing one another, sipping big mugs of steaming tea, and covering every subject under the sun. It had been awhile since

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View from Abroad

My first trip abroad was in 1985. I traveled solo, called by Greece’s siren song. The land, the people, the language, both written and spoken,

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Kyrie

Kyrie’s been gone for a few weeks and it’s taken until now for me to bring myself to write about her. But if ever there

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Close to the surface

“Would you like to take another machine?” I ask Claudia, as we stand in the church parking lot, a considerate 6’ apart. The Sewing Machine

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Together, Apart

I’ve been keeping a quarantine journal and it amazes me how some days feel like they stretch on forever, while some seem so short. There

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A new schedule

I started keeping a bullet journal in September 2019. A place for daily schedules and notes, thoughts and agendas, I chose a comfortable, black bound

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Sunrise

Moving through the darkness we feel along the familiarities of the house—a temporary home we’ve just recently come to know. ”We’re going to see the

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The Gift of Darkness

Up earlier than usual this morning I ran the familiar assessment that comes in the wee hours. Have I slept enough to make it through

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