My friend’s smug self-satisfaction gave her the look of Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire cat. “I’m giving up peanut butter for lent,” she said. I shot back, “how stupid,” before I could stop myself. “Why?” “Because it’s lent!” My blank expression gave me away. “You’re not religious enough to understand,” she said. I assumed she must be… Continue Reading
“Magic Mirror on the wall…” No need to go further. We all know what comes next. That iconic query leveled at a looking glass by the jealous queen in Snow White started all the troubles to come. The queen didn’t get the answer she expected; the one she’d convinced herself she’d hear. Instead it told… Continue Reading
“I think you’re uniquely positioned to handle this well.” I heard some hesitancy, possibly part of the translation he had to do from his native French in his head to my native English in mine. Handle this well? I made excuses for such a seemingly thoughtless comment due to his foreign tongue and emotionally challenged… Continue Reading
I’ve noticed recently how often I’m moved to tears. It’s a new development since I’ve entered the recovery phase after my husband’s death, and one I’ve been forced to acknowledge by its repetitive reality. Of course, my inner voice says, your nerves are a mess; overworked and undernourished. But that inner monologue also has another… Continue Reading
I’ve always been violently opposed to the adage that good things come in small packages; or at least that was so when I was a child. I knew a lot about the tricks adults could play on children and figured that axiom was just another. Eventually I recognized that those little blue Tiffany boxes could… Continue Reading
What a fascinating process; metabolism . Its scientific designation runs from breaking matter down, to absorbing and burning it up for circulation as fuel. We don’t have many words in the English language that cover such a gamut. The romance languages are better at that, acknowledging many ways to make use of the nuance of… Continue Reading