Finding Our Way to Vermont
I’m often asked how we wound up in Vermont. It’s a good story, one I enjoy telling if given enough time. At the same time, it occurs to me that if one owns one’s own website (now there’s a tongue … Read More
I (too) HAVE A DREAM
With the annual holiday honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hovering, I am called to create my own dream of a time in the future, a time that holds out hope, a time that promises to be different … Read More
Deconstructing Thanksgiving 2020
Too lofty a title? I just want to talk about how Thanksgiving went for us this year. And, curious how it went for you. One aspect I imagine we all share: this Thanksgiving, 2020, was different from any we’ve had … Read More
Treating Racism Like CoVid-19: Step Four
Subtitle: While introducing you to the new man in our life. Remember this poster? Under the BLACK LIVES MATTER headline, it reads, TREAT RACISM LIKE COVID-19 and she gives us four steps to do this. So, far, I’ve gotten three … Read More
Musing on Aging
Musing on age aging? I can’t seem to get into it. I find I have nothing to say about turning 72 this week, though I have tried. May Sarton wrote a whole book on the topic. Well, on the year … Read More
A New Look at Thanksgiving: the strange ritual we pull off each year
It really is a strange ritual we pull off each year. We mean well, with this Thanksgiving of ours, but intention only carries so far. The Thanksgiving myth, you know, is a fiction. A nice fiction, a Norman Rockwell fiction, … Read More
Understanding Ash Wednesday: From the Protestant Reformation to Mardi Gras
I set out wanting to better understand a holiday that is celebrated in my own backyard, yet is one I know very little about: Ash Wednesday In the process I found myself thinking once again about the the churches I … Read More
Habari Gani: Happy Kwanzaa
You’ve heard of Kwanzaa? I hadn’t until I moved to Philadelphia. Even then, what I thought I knew has turned out to be mistaken. So, what better opportunity might there be to learn about this rapidly growing American-founded holiday than … Read More
Happy Anniversary, Woody
Today, October 10, marks our 25th anniversary. Not our wedding anniversary, that hits 19 today, and who celebrates 19? Not us. But 25 years ago (yes, we chose our wedding date so we could keep celebrating the same date we’d … Read More