On Love as in Who and How Do We Love

“Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?”  – Pearl Buck. The answer seems to be – it depends on who you ask. If you ask a poet, he or she might say My love is like a Red Red Rose Or You only have to let the soft animal...
Painting and Perfectionism

Painting and Perfectionism

“Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get...

training bras

Church was the weirdest thing in the world when I was a kid.  We went – my sister, my brother, my mother and father and me – to a very wooden congregational church in New Rye, NH.  Women wore dresses and gloves and men wore dark suits and white shirts and...
From Mother-writer to Writer-mother

From Mother-writer to Writer-mother

Writing this blog was hard. I didn’t really have time, because I’m on a Midwest college tour with my sixteen-year-old daughter. We drove 12 hours from Georgia to Michigan. We spent four days in Michigan touring The University of Michigan and visiting family....
Going

Going

It’s that time of year, when goings happen. There are so many graduations with young people moving onto the next chapter of their lives. Several friends are moving—Dulcie just moved into a new house, my best friend, Janene, is moving from Tennessee to Texas, and...

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