I was gifted with the opportunity to stop everything and take stock of my life. My doctors call it a stroke. My daughter calls it a tragedy. My family calls it a shame. I call it all kinds of words I shall not repeat. It’s something that I did not ask for. It’s stripped me […]
The Dryad’s Duty
I was cleaning out an external hard drive and came across all of my writing from my college days; one piece in particular caught my attention. I’d taken an “Environmental Writing” course during my senior year at Brandeis. My (brilliant and beloved) professor, Victor Luftig, challenged us to a bit of ‘parallel writing’ – essentially, I […]
Thoughts of L
Every day, for one reason or another, she is there. The most minuscule, the most trite and seemingly innocuous comment or occurrence will conjure her–and then she’s there, as real as when she was alive. My mother is a beautiful ghost. Gratitude to the Otherworld for not haunting me with a gruesome specter; I am […]
A Daring Leap
To blog or not to blog. I’ve pushed this question back and forth across my mind for a couple of decades now; I never thought the time was right. I’ve been so busy living that the thought of recording it all seemed exhausting–it still does, in fact. But I’ve too much to say to keep […]
Into the Abyss... 