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Category Archives: Motherhood

November 3rd

November 3, 2022

Today is the 102nd anniversary of my mother’s birth.  Given our stormy history, I have not thought about her very …

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Musings on Madness

June 21, 2022

Me: I am a round peg in the square hole of life. Kyle: Ah, so it’s hereditary! January 2016 I …

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Landsongs

December 27, 2020

Is that what familiarity with a place is? The memory of one’s own song being sung back to them by the place itself?

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Sedona, Oak Creek, October 2001

November 12, 2020

Time to take flight myself, I guess.

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The Sculpture of Spring

March 30, 2018

It was my second Mother’s Day; Kyle was nearly two years old, and we were out shopping as a family. …

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Notes From a Getting-Wiser Woman

December 5, 2017

A few evenings ago I went to a talk given by someone whom I have long admired for his writings.  …

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Photo Prose Poem

May 22, 2017

I see a mother offering so much more than a piece of apple to her child. It’s as if all the surrounding apples, leaves, branches, and blades of grass represent all the possibilities awaiting the child.

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Stumped

May 14, 2017

I stood on a hill top this morning, looking down across a meadow and further out across the waters of …

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Dessert For the Past

May 11, 2017

Yesterday, I had lunch with a friend whom I have not seen in eighteen years. A young person’s lifetime. Tim …

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Kyle’s Write Stuff

April 25, 2017

He smelled of cheap cigarettes and stale coffee, like the back of some old “last gas here” station, where the …

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  • Spring Equinox 2022

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Kate Cowie Riley on “New Age, Old Age”…
Jan Page on “New Age, Old Age”…
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