How nourished we are by old friends! A burst of laughter at the dinner table Echoes down the decades. Roast pork, smoked turkey, rice and beans, apple pie. M. remembering giving birth A few months before me. How our children invented long, fantastic role play, Gave us quizzical looks when we interrupted them, Saying itContinue reading “Thanksgiving Praise/Prose”
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White Wife/Blue Baby
I’m using the title White Wife/Blue Baby for my forthcoming memoir. When the phrase first hit me, my psychological hair stood on end. I married across the color line in ‘68, and our daughter was born not getting enough oxygen, two facts with ambulance sirens attached to them. When I first referred to my titleContinue reading “White Wife/Blue Baby”
The Wind’s Fault
Photo by Khamkéo Vilaysing on Unsplash Learning the Palmer Method took everything I had. No matter how slowly I went, no matter how carefully I concentrated on the fat, gorgeous script on the blackboard, my capital letters came out squashed like bread packed in the bottom of a grocery bag. And wrapping your mouth aroundContinue reading “The Wind’s Fault”
Things to be Thankful For: Medicine Coffee
“Give me something that looks nice that I can run in,” I’d said to the salesman at Hawley Lane Shoes. And he did. I had just learned that we had been awarded a four-year grant to strengthen the academic skills of lively but less-than-focused high school students. These students needed to know that if theyContinue reading “Things to be Thankful For: Medicine Coffee”
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