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Green: Of Monsters and Men
When I was in first grade, we were given mimeographed sheets (look it up, kids) to color. They had rows of small images, like comic strips, filled with simple outlines–a house, grass, an improbable...
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Song of the Sky
Not only was it Putnam Day, but the first of December was covered with snow. I don’t know about the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston, but I suspect that yesterday it bore the same beautiful,...
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Changing Seasons: Summer to Spring Segue
My husband Jim’s diagnosis hit us along with summer’s pulverizing heat. Coming out of the air-conditioned hospital to lean against a cement pillar and weep was like stepping through a portal onto the...
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The Secret Lives of Beagles
I found myself talking at length to our puppy today. Now, I did not grow up a “dog person”–although currently many of my friends fear I will become a crazy old dog lady when my children are grown. It...
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Seeking Solstice Solace
Winter Solstice fell on a Friday. A church bell, its percussive cut-off left to linger to its unmuffled end, pealed in remembrance of twenty children and six educators who were alive and beginning...
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Don’t Step on the Saints!
I have always been afraid of stepping on saints . . . .but more about that later. If there is one thing about the merry side of Christmas that will forever be intertwined with my husband Jim, it is the...
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What are the Odds?
Please give me a little leeway and try to get past the next paragraph. I apologize, profoundly, in advance. Before dawn, one of my beautiful rescue dogs relieved himself in the snow and made a perfect...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved
Resolved: I will look up. “Resolve” originates in the Latin resolvere: to “loosen, undo, settle, fasten”–a seemingly paradoxical combination of the intensive prefix re and solvere. (The word “resolve”...
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Blogiversary!
Exactly one year ago, with considerable technical assistance from my daughter, I began the adventure of blogging. I thought it might be a good way to organize my thoughts and keep a circle of family...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination
It nullifies the night. A photograph may capture a millisecond of natural or man-made light. A Medieval or Renaissance manuscript may have been burnished with specks of gold, or had pressed upon its...
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Homer Nods
No, not that Homer. The bureaucratic world has handed me countless fatiguing waits in the elusive hope of finding a real human to whom to pose a question not encompassed by pressing “1″ through “7″ in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Love Most Fowl
The challenge this week is to find love in a photograph. It doesn’t get much easier than that. Except for crime scene photographs which make their way into my day job, not many pictures in my life fail...
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(Weekly Photo Challenge) A Failure of Focus
I believe grief is often marked by a loss of focus (not to mention loss of physical objects). I am coming to believe that successfully navigating life with grief (as nearly all of us must do)...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Family
Three years ago. The crest of a hill down to a frozen pond that was part of the family home and land Jim nurtured. At the left is one of three antique blue-green sheds which were settled on a slope …...
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Why I Hate “Bucket Lists”
The term “bucket list” appears to have originated as a type of sorting algorithm in computer programming. Since an eponymous 2007 film, it has come to stand for a checklist of things to do before...
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Not only was it Putnam Day, but the first of December was covered with snow. I don’t know about the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston, but I suspect that yesterday it bore the same beautiful,...
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My husband Jim’s diagnosis hit us along with summer’s pulverizing heat. Coming out of the air-conditioned hospital to lean against a cement pillar and weep was like stepping through a portal onto the...
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