A few days ago, Peter and I, visiting a dear friend who has an amazing farm in rural Georgia, had the good fortune of spending the night there. Time with this particular friend is always special. She works as a family therapist during the week, and farms her land on the weekends. She is a…
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Dani Shapiro, whose writing I like very much, has a new book out, entitled “Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage” – a memoir which is being highly praised as a compassionate, intimate account of her long-term marriage, written in elegant prose. The words elegant prose have definitely captured my attention, so I’m eager to read it and…
Hope is one of those words that baffles me. It’s certainly part of the discourse around how to adjust to the upcoming presidency of our Perpetrator-in-Chief, but what does it really mean, particularly in that context? I can start with the Merriam-Webster definition, that hope is “the feeling of wanting something to happen and thinking…
When my daughters were young, ages 4, 8, 9, and 10, we lived in Auburn, Alabama and I was a new masters student in the university’s marriage and family therapy program. It was a simple life, in a lovely college town, where I could go to school at night while Peter was home with our…
I haven’t written a blog in quite a while, but today I do have a few thoughts to share. I came across a beautiful quote this morning by the Irish author John O’Donohue: “May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.” A sacred gift woven around the heart…
