Music and Cats

One of the assignments for the memoir-writing class I’m taking is that each student attend an author reading, and report back to the class about it. After weeks of finding nothing on bookstore event schedules that interested me, in this week I found four authors whose readings I wanted to attend. I’ve been to two […]

To celebrate World Poetry Day, and because Isabella asked about the books of poetry that Helen gave me for my high-school graduation.
From Kahlil Gibran’s Sand and Foam:
I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my foot-prints,And the wind will blow away the foam.But the sea and […]

This poem comes by way of Philip, who left it as a comment for Jilbur. It was new to me, and I loved its evocation of the everyday, the small, even perhaps the annoying as being cause for thanksgiving. Thank you, Philip.
Poem in Thanks
Lord Whoever, thank you for this airI’m about to in- and […]

While the past year has been perhaps the most difficult of my life, I have much for which to be thankful. Most importantly, my husband Paul is here with me. At the beginning of this year, we weren’t sure that he would live to see another Thanksgiving (which is, for many reasons, his favorite holiday). […]