The Sweet Jar – Episode 11
“…she always strove to repair the small tears in the fabric of society to make things better, to leave things better than when she found them.”
The Color of Cream
They told me that although they didn’t remember many of the exhibits — they remember so strongly how that museum made them FEEL…
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.