A Cautionary TALE

A Cautionary TALE

 The good news is that my knees didn’t buckle, bend the wrong way, or creak during Thai travel. The bad news evoked more revery than a single sentence… Fragile, cautious, in jeopardy. Not feelings I’d ever experienced before. Never a victim of...
7 Hs in Him

7 Hs in Him

It’s  hard to be humble when you live in the Milky Way, part of a universe commanded into being. “Because I said so,” God would say if you asked, using every parent’s fallback refrain. It’s important to be humane as well as human in our...
…”when I’m 64″

…”when I’m 64″

We were celebrating a big birthday and an ‘all-clear’ from cancer for me. My husband and I had also endured an intense period of deaths, pitfalls, and passages in the prior year, and we needed to culminate our grieving with some kind of commemorative...