Finally, the puppy we’ve been waiting for has arrived! On Valentine’s day, when these pictures were taken, he was…
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crone chronicles
I’m writing this post to my daughters, those beautiful middling-age women who grace my life, who still carry the bloom…
set point
Be Humble I read not too long ago that when the first Tibetan lamas came to North America to…
good enough
To my horror, I’ve just read that people can spend years and years working on a single literary oeuvre. Years, already.…
puppy tales [part 2 of 2]
Early into our visit to Howling Pines Kennels a few weeks ago, I discovered that Nicole, the breeder, is…
puppy tales [part 1 of 2]
Sometime in the next month or so, Younger Son and his lovely wife will become the proud parents of…
new beginnings
A new year is like a blank book, and the pen is in your hands. May your story be a…
the passing of a year [the crone speaks]
And so another year falls away, into the midden heap of empty promises, failed resolutions, tender hopes and expectations that never…
A good Jewish family…
I have a dear friend living in the southern U.S., who posts regularly on her blog–one I follow not only…
…And to all a good night
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Bleed, on warfarin
The thing is, you see, blood thinners prevent blood from clotting. That’s their job. They do it well. Great for…
Word play
True haiku is a Japanese verse in three lines, a mood poem that uses no metaphors or similes. The first…
Telephone chronicles
This week I was reflecting back on our long-ago days of active parenting. It’s amazing, really, how quickly we forget…
Thin-skinned
This poem speaks to those of us who are entering or living the years of the crone, who are hoping…
The world’s happiest man
Matthieu Ricard, son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel and well-known French artist and Tibetan Buddhist nun Yahne le Toumelin, is himself…
Under the weather
“Under the weather.” An odd phrase, that, but ever so much nicer than saying “I feel like crap.” It’s not a…
For My Father
Wikipedia: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflam-matory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks flexible…
Thin air
We streak along this narrow asphalt ribbon into the stratosphere, zig-zagging through switchbacks, slipping around hairpin curves designed by mountain goats…
Self-Portrait
This body seems sometimes a cramped apartment owned by an absentee landlord in which I live uneasy, a renter soon…
Those heart-breaking, head-aching, middle-of-the-nighttime blues
Oh, groan. I got absolutely no sleep last night. I’m going to be a zombie by noon. I was bug-eyed…
Back on the radar
Since May 9, it’s been. I’m back in the world after over four months spent living the life of a…
Preview: what I did on my summer holidays…
I keep having this feeling that I’d better get some major house-cleaning done. I’ve had feelings like this plenty of…
David Brooks: The Moral Bucket List
There’s a theme emerging in much of what I’m reading these days, as it becomes ever clearer to us all that…
Eulogy
Some eleven years ago now, an Alaskan Malamute puppy tugged at our hearts the first time we ever laid eyes…
Spring creeper
Raw and sensitive as a newly-closed wound that tingles to the touch, I creep into this bright new day, a…
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