A year of grief
Last year at this time: Mama was hospitalized March 3 and the nursing home and hospital let me know ...
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Justice and Love
Our country is in a state of turmoil in many ways (including but not limited to violence, racist act...
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Thinking About My Mom
My Mother passed away on International Women’s Day, and we had a small service to honor her on Pi Day. Around this time, COVID-19 hit, and it complicated everything for everyone. A few weeks after her death I posted a list on Facebook that I wanted to expand on; many of the items on this…
What do you show up for?
Once a month I drive by the most interesting man. He shows up for peace. He’s interesting because he stands on the busy intersection of New Scotland Avenue and South Manning in Albany waving a peace flag. I’ve been driving by this spot for years and he’s there once a month, in all kinds of weather. He stands…
Book Review: “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
Michelle Alexander’s book is not just eye-opening, it is soul-wrestling stuff. I think everyone in the country ought to read it and know how mass incarceration affects the lives of millions of our countrymen, and why grassroots movement is needed to undo much of what has been done to the black community since the Reagan…
Live Your Life Fully- Dreams
This blog post is my P.S.A. Life your life fully- a cliche in some ways but one that cane a guiding mantra. A few things in my world have caused me to dig deep into what the saying means. I have a sick, hospitalized Mom (again), friends who are suffering loss, family going through illness….
Book(s) Review: The Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante
I’m overwhelmed by how much I love these four books- the Neapolitan series. It wasn’t love at first page. I earnestly struggled with Book 1 of the series, which details the younger years of these two passionate, brave, deeply weird women. And then, somewhere in Book 2 (‘The Story of A New Name”), I feel…
Standing in God’s Love with Bonhoeffer and MLK
The holiday to honor MLK is almost upon us. I’m listening to the service in his honor led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and also thinking of a book I recently read, “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” about another martyr to justice whose courage was instructed by God’s love. The book I read,…
The Light Is In Your Soul: an Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
I love January- the clean, crisp promise of new beginnings. It’s time to think back and reflect but also make plans for the year being born. It makes me happy to see a blank page in the planner and on the calendar and wonder what it will be filled with. It’s the same feeling I…
New Year’s Day
I wrote this poem in 2009 and wanted to share it. Every year I feel the same. New Year’s Day The snow on the ground, a light dusting which will turn to ice, is a canvas of hope. Blankness, emptiness and a promise of bright and cheerful tomorrows to rescue the sorrows of yesterday….
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