I am revisiting my high school poetry notebooks and posting a few of the better pieces. This was written circa 1982. I sat one day In
Daybreak
For the first time in many, many years (dare I say decades?) I pulled out my high school poetry notebooks. My best guess is that
Why I Write Now
Over the last few months, I have started thinking less of myself as someone who writes long rambling Facebook posts when the events of the
The Subtle Knife
It is usually a song that does it Perhaps Ed Sheeran The strum of the guitar His voice urgent, imploring “Give me love like never
Thinking About Passion (or how Ed Sheeran Ruined my Middle-Aged Zen)
I have been thinking a great deal lately about passion. Both sexual passion and emotional passion. I turned 50 in March of this year, which
Wait Until Morning October 11, 2016
It struck me as sadly ironic that on October 10, 2016—World Mental Health Day- a member of a closed Facebook group I belong to posted
Empathy December 4, 2014
This post was written the week that a New York Grand Jury decided not to indict an NYPD officer in the death of Eric Garner,
Depression: The Dark Suitor March 10, 2015
This blog post was written on March 10, 2015, a week after learning that the 13 year old son of another Mount Holyoke alum had committed suicide.
On being a “good” person June 28, 2015
This blog post was written on June 28, 2015, two days after the US Supreme Court granted Marriage Equity for gay and lesbians. It was written
