The emotional-support pumpkin (soup)
I saw a video in the early hours of this day – around the time of the blood…
The Underworld
(This is also the transcript for the podcast Breathing Out Stars — Episode 31) There is a moon…
In attesa – waiting
While we watched an Italian game show, we packed. So it was extra easy the next morning to…
Mille passi – a thousand steps
There is a place I have wanted to go. But last time I was not mobile and it…
Questi stivali – these boots.
It was many years ago during a dermatological excision that we, in our family, learned that Nancy Sinatra…
Mercoledì
The city is hot. We are on the numero 15 tram…stiamo andando in centro – we are going to…
Il cuoco — the chef.
I was told the most wonderful story. Thank you, A, for this. He knows that I have written…
I prossimi passi …the next steps
We did it. We flew. The first day I always think — I am fine. But it is…
Blue Grace
Episode 23. Blue Grace. It was Grace. It was pure, unadulterated grace. Like the old-fashioned kind. The Gift…
O Pandemic Wedding, O Happy Day
(This piece was debuted at Whiskey & Words, Madison, Wisconsin, October 21, 2021 for The Madison Reading Project)…
Wedding Bells & The Blue Shoes
I am not the first to write about a wedding and neither will I be the last. My…
Remarks from MJAL Candlelighting December 13, 2020
We fly together through the darkness, holding onto the window…
The Hanukkah of Fire & Light.
It was a hundred years ago and it was ten. It was a time when the world was a certain way — before it became a different kind of world, a certain other kind of way.
The Hot Sauce Bride: a memorial.
I cooked obsessively during the funeral. If you stop, you know — and look at the screen…then the…
Prayer & Healing & Not Always Fixing
‘….we kept talking about it while going down the elevator. In fact, we couldn’t stop talking about it…’