Category Archives: Back in the Real World

The Dunes Abide

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Stephanie

  A limitless tapestry of rich red-gold sand is dappled by hoof prints roughly the size and shape of swaddled footballs.  With each tread, a spray of pure gold rises, hovers, and enfolds itself back into dunes. My elaborately wound … Continue reading →

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The Shadows Know

Posted on February 11, 2017 by Stephanie

“Are they shadows that we see? And can shadows pleasure give? Pleasures only shadows be Cast by bodies we conceive And are made the things we deem In those figures which they seem.”  –Samuel Daniel A gathering Nor’easter announced itself … Continue reading →

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Zero-Visibility Blogging: My Second Blogiversary!

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Stephanie

I just drove my daughter to the airport on this week’s second white-shrouded zero-visibility travelling morning. Metaphorically, on my second blogiversary it remains difficult to see all of gems which may glitter in the most unexpected places once the fog lifts. … Continue reading →

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Confessions of an Habitual Offender

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Stephanie

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a person can be indicted as an habitual criminal.  It is as if plucking a magic combination from three enumerated categories of convictions means one has developed an ingrained immoral memory and no longer can … Continue reading →

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