“High Functioning Bereaved Parents”
Here are some reflections from my late night/early morning reading: Jeremy Shaton wrote in a New York Times blog about …
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Cicadas again
Brood 2 of the 17-year magicicadas are emerging this spring in my part of the world. I hear them singing …
Time travel
This writing is a response to (with inspiration from) Denise Levertov’s poem, “Animal Spirits.” Here’s a link to it: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/05/14 When …
flying in the breeze
This was written in response to Denise Levertov’s poem, “Animal Spirits.” Read the poem at this link: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/05/14 One of the …
You Are Not Here/You Are Everywhere
Steve, today is your birthday, and you are not here, yet everywhere. You are the gentle breeze enveloping me like …
A Place That No Longer Exists
CRYSTAL BEACH AMUSEMENT PARK- Ontario, Canada The highlight of my summer vacation in the late ’60s and early ’70s was …
Wash Day and Grape Jelly
An early Saturday morning and I can already hear the clattering and swooshing coming from the kitchen. Mother has moved …
Dusting
April 19, 2013 Yesterday I dusted. I don’t like dusting–it only stirs up what will settle again. I’m just moving …
Listener in the Loft
At a recent book event in Salisbury at the Literary Bookpost, an independent bookstore, members of our group who were …
The Dining Room Table
Yesterday I anticipated four bereaved mothers, including me, sitting at my dining room table for dinner. We are all mothers …
Farther Along 