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Prayer Circle
Posted on November 11, 2020 6 Comments
Please join us today, holding space, embracing my beautiful boy in a circle of love, so that his spirit is embraced in the loving arms of the soul circle we share as his body is returned to ash over the next two hours. I pray that he finds the peace he seeks in the loving […]
Hope is
Posted on January 4, 2018 Leave a Comment
Hope Is Hope is a point of light That beacons high above The darkness of a stormy night With glimmers of her love And brightest in the fog surround Her presence but a flash A pulse of life yet to come ‘round Sweet salve to fill the gash. I’ve seen her in the gravest trench […]
Welcome 2017 Citizens of the United States of America
Posted on December 3, 2017 Leave a Comment
Thursday, I had the inspiring experience of attending a Naturalization Ceremony in my adopted home of Burlington, Vermont. One may assume that because I have endured a great loss at the hands of terrorist infiltrates who took advantage of our resources and open-door policy, that I might hold reservations about immigration laws and side to […]
Birthdays
Posted on November 5, 2017 Leave a Comment
Friday’s child is Loving and Giving A nurse, a ballerina, a pirate, an Indian princess, one witch and an assortment of fairy princesses and superheroes assembled in a dark walnut paneled, gold and orange hued kitchen accented with avocado appliances. A harvest yellow enameled casserole pot, […]
What’s your story?
Posted on September 10, 2017 Leave a Comment
Everyone has a story that begs to be told. What’s yours? Share the day in your life.
Counting down to Ground Zero
Posted on September 1, 2017 3 Comments
The “funk” has begun. It always creeps up on me, disguising itself as a simmering sub-dural hum from the August week we return from Maine until it manifests as an undeniable migraine when I find myself screaming WTF! I return to the realization that I have, once again, lost full control of my emotions and […]
Happy 30th Anniversary?
Posted on July 25, 2017 Leave a Comment
In front of me as I write is a photograph, snapped July 25, 2001 on a Kodak Advantix by our eight year old. It was taken on the cedar deck we had just built in the backyard of where we lived in Freeport, NY. In this photo, Dave and I are retiring on our newly […]
“Never Forget 9/11”
Posted on July 19, 2017 2 Comments
No one needs bumper stickers or museum kiosks to remind them of what they cannot forget. Most kids aren’t reminded of their parent’s date of death by the vehicle ahead, when heading to the Little League field. Lunch out with a friend isn’t usually jolted by political debates over the circumstances of your spouse’s death, […]
