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Reflections on the small things, and the big ones, that impact our day-to-day lives.

The Minor Fall/the Major Lift

“Is ‘Hallelujah’ a Christmas song?” asks a friend. He has a doubtful look on his face. He heard the song as part of a Christmas compilation. Leonard Cohen aficionado that he knows I…

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

West Side Story In another lifetime I lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The streets were funkier, gentrification on the rise, decades past the time and setting of the movie musical…

A muppet, a mouse, a fawn

When my daughter was young she had a favorite dress, white eyelet and lace, a special occasion dress that needed no special occasion for her to insist on wearing it.  A pretty purple…

A Patch of Blue

A cloudy morning, the air cool and crisp against my face, the wind rippling the lake.  My eyes fix on a patch of blue peeking between clouds. A year has passed since my…

On Hold: my corona diaries

The other day I got caught in the rain on my morning walk. More than a drizzle, less than a downpour.  I don’t relish walking in the rain. I count on a 15-minute margin of…

Submit Surrender Retreat: my corona diaries

As a writer I think about words in all their nuance, music, use and misuse. I submit work in the hope of having it published. In this context, submission is a good thing….

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