Plastic Farm Animals
Most people take their lives seriously, buying a home and settling into a career. This is not the case with our life. We tend to take ours serially – jumping from place to place and from one job to the next. To the casual observer it would seem that our life has no plan. In […]
My day in the kitchen begins and ends with this little saucepan. Donated to our culinary cause by good friends, it serves us all day long. The first thing I do after getting out of bed is turn on the burner to boil water for coffee. I spend an average of 2 hours in the […]
I like gangster movies. Maybe it’s because I spent my formative years in the Bronx, New York and West Long Branch, New Jersey. Gangster movies feed my dark, sardonic side. I like the look of that era, when waves of immigrant labor grappled for positions of power in the concrete jungles of a new country. […]
I measure my life in check marks on my “To Do” list. I walked to the grocery store, I wrote in my journal, I chopped onions, I vacuumed. Sometimes I wonder – “Am I a human being, or a human doing?” I learned the art of staying busy years ago from Julia, a gentle and […]
My husband has made me an outlandishly wealthy woman by giving me the luxury of time – all day, all mine – to do with as I wish. Stand still long enough and you will see something wonderful. Today it was a flicker working its way up a telephone pole in the first sun of […]