Stealing Lawn Ornaments
When we weren’t cruising mausoleums at ten miles an hour, we were stealing lawn ornaments: pink flamingos, plastic leprechauns, carriage boys holding out lanterns...
View ArticleStarting Fires
I am passionate about beginnings: The outline and first chapter of a relationship, walking the knife edge of the first day, the turning of imagined into real. If I followed my passion I would get my...
View ArticleCrafting A Deathly Story
I haven’t been in a theater lately where there was so much emotion. At the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, with my son and his friends, I was amazed at the depths the...
View ArticleA Poem from Thich Nhat Hanh on Non-Duality
The text from Thich Nhat Hanh's poem, "Recommendation", published in his book, Being Peace, Parallax Press, 1987, reminds me in times of trouble, to practice non-duality.
View ArticleWendy Moves Out
I had been Wendy, in Peter Pan, taking care of the Lost Boys for so long. But now I was moving out.
View ArticleDispelling Gloom
And while Old Man Gloom and the park he is torched in were prepared this week, the Google alert I set up for my name many years ago has been very active.
View ArticleSo Poe
Death is here now, waiting patiently as we make coffee, crack open eggs, reach for the morning paper.
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