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Now Face West
This is the tenth Father’s Day that has dawned for my children without their father here with them. This year, they all are also separated from each other, occupying different spaces on two continents. Seven years have passed since we … Continue reading
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Tagged camel safaris, chaos, disorder, Father's Day, fatherhood, grief, Iceland, India, memory, motherhood, Northern Ireland, pandemic, seasons, spillover, theoretical physics, zoonoses
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Love Lessons: A Marriage Manifesto
” . . . [T]here are three people in a marriage, there’s the woman, there’s the man, and there’s what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.” –Jose Saramago, … Continue reading
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Tagged "Dewy Adorable Days Gone By", "The Real Housewives of New Jersey", Cambridge, Donna Tartt, E. Lockhart's "We Were Liars", Exeter, George Bernard Shaw, Greg Brown's "Down at the Dream Cafe", John Hiatt's "Cry Love", John Stewart's "The Daily Show", Jose Saramago's "All the Names", loss, marriage, Memorial Church, motherhood, Phillips Church, Reverend Bob, Weekly Writing Challenge: Manifesto, widowhood
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Life Lessons From a Mayonnaise Jar
I don’t know how many commencements I’ve attended, but I remember what the speaker at my husband’s medical school graduation told the crowd of new interns. He quoted the instructions on a mayonnaise jar: “Keep cool. Do not freeze.” That’s … Continue reading
