My baby sister turns 50 this year. I’ve always looked out for her, big-sistered her, cherished her. And this year, she turns 50 and I have to reluctantly admit to myself that she is no longer a baby. She has a job of responsibility, including a promotion – up two grades – that she earned …
This morning, I selected a guided meditation on gratitude from the meditation app that I use. I wasn’t looking for a gratitude meditation, I was looking for a Bodhisattva meditation but this was the closest I could find. At first, I was put off by the style of the recording. It felt overproduced, with that …
I woke up this morning with a dream hangover - you know, where you dream something that seems so real and you wake up and it stays with you, hovers over your head even as you roll out of bed. The dream was strange, odd; but as I woke up it faded and was replaced …
Many years ago, I worked with a computer program that, when booted up, took forever to come online. Instead of a spinning disk, it would flash the same words across the screen, bright green on black: Patience is Required… There you were, hovering over it in your coat and your commuting shoes, your backpack still …
Many years ago, I wrote a poem which started, We meet here every year on New Year's day, New Year's day. This poem has been running through my head for weeks. Last year, for President's Day weekend, my husband and I visited Washington DC. We took the early train down on Saturday morning, left our …
