I’m having a terrible time trying to get into the Christmas spirit. I think what I really want is for my three daughters to be youngsters again. I want to go out as a family and pick out a tree, then bring it home to decorate it, bake cookies, and watch Santa Claus Saves Earth from […]
No matter how steep the climb, I’m so grateful today to be on this path with you. May the next four years, indeed, be “a time to heal.” Meanwhile, there’s always poetry. Joanna Klink has become a big favorite of mine, ever since reading an epigraph from her work in Holly Hughes’s Hold Fast. This poem is […]
I’m trying to get through this election without falling apart. Why am I so surprised that people would vote for this awful, bigoted man? I’m trying to visualize Joe Biden as my president. To read what (once-conservative) columnist David Brooks wrote about Biden, this centrist (not a communist) statesman with progressive (yay!) leanings, click here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/joe-biden.html […]