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HOCUS POCUS: Golden Shovel
Posted on October 31, 2023 Leave a Comment
After Jennifer Michael Hecht When you were twelve, your shadow out cast mine, you’d eat two bowls of long spiral spaghetti straws twirling in a meaty sauce I scratched, red, lip-smacking, mmm. Wednesday nights, the donut shop man is a dervish charmer filling our sack for three dollars for no rhyme or reason. Once, in […]
Your memory cannot be erased by the veil of time
Posted on September 11, 2023 Leave a Comment
This souvenir photo was taken in Y2000 on “Take Your Child to Work Day.” Davin was 7-years-old. I took the boys to visit Daddy at work on occasion throughout the year. They would sit at his desk in his cubicle at Marsh & McLennan and play computer games he’d set up on his desktop, pretending […]
The Promise
Posted on July 26, 2023 4 Comments
And I said: “Dear, I promise to love you forever, and you said: I promise I’ll never leave you.
July 25, 1987.
I found some fantastic fudge today!
Posted on May 11, 2023 2 Comments
In honor of David’s birthday, his story is told by the mark of his own pen. I’m pleased to share his gift of words, as brilliant as the light of Venus in this evening’s sky. This is your invitation to the celebration.
What Holds Me Back?
Posted on May 7, 2023 2 Comments
What is the force that drives the code I cannot crack, why can’t I step out of my shell what holds me back? I’ve read “how-to” books got keys to success from T.V., but still I haven’t figured out, how this all applies to me. Sure I make out my lists what goes and what […]
Tuesday’s Children Presents:
Posted on March 2, 2023 Leave a Comment
Lessons in Recovery and Resilience Virtual Speaker Series 2023 Tuesday’s Children is hosting a virtual event as part of their 2023 Lessons in Recovery and Resilience Speaker Series on the topic of Suicide Awareness, Intervention, and Post-vention. This event will provide an opportunity for attendees to hear from panelists about early prevention and intervention, grief-informed […]
This Sacred, Unthinkable Day
Posted on November 13, 2022 Leave a Comment
Pushing through this sacred, unthinkable Day. Time has no reckoning over the love I hold for you in my heart — Deborah Garcia.
IN CELEBRATION OF MY BIRTHDAY
Posted on October 24, 2022 Leave a Comment
‘The Foundation Fighting Blindness is a nonprofit organization that funds research for discovering treatments for inherited retinal diseases, like the retinitis pigmentosa that my husband, Dave lived with. Darkened of sight but not vision. Our future descendants are at risk for having this disease passed down to them. A legacy donation brings Dave’s dream closer […]
Still Life with Mother
Posted on September 22, 2022 7 Comments
I invite you to celebrate the birth of my mother in this poetic homage.
