Happy New Years
Visiting my parents last week in New York City, I went for a run along the Hudson. It was cold and very windy, but New Yorkers are a tough crowd, so they were all out there, enjoying Riverside Park....
View ArticlePretty Pictures
Things are never what they seem. The face we show the world is often very different from our private face; the face we save for those closest to us, or maybe only our bathroom mirror, and there’s...
View ArticleThe little children.
My favorite run is beside the Central Canal Towpath. I love knowing it it all its’ different ways – the steamy smelly moist heat of summer, then the crisp colorful edge of autumn as the leaves turn the...
View ArticleIt’s never too late
Sometimes I put off doing something I’d rather not do, telling myself “it’s too late anyway”. Well, that’s a lie, a flimsy excuse: it’s never too late. I have written before about my childhood, in...
View ArticleThis Thin Skin
“I like this thin skin”. My girls and I spent a week with my parents in Connecticut this summer, as we always do, and this year leaving was especially hard. As the driver pulled away from their house,...
View ArticleHappy New Years
Visiting my parents last week in New York City, I went for a run along the Hudson. It was cold and very windy, but New Yorkers are a tough crowd, so they were all out there, enjoying Riverside Park....
View ArticleThe magic of the mundane
Whoops, I did it again: met a man who lives in another city, too far away. I did not mean for it to happen; we met, we started talking, and things escalated to planning a visit. And then I panicked. I...
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