Hello and Happy Winter Solstice to you! It’s the darkest day of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere, and I thought you might need a few words to accompany you as we slowly move towards the light over the next few months. Winter’s stark and spare beauty can be difficult to see clearly on these long, dark nights. As…
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Hello and Merry Christmas, dear readers! In the past few weeks, we’ve waded into the waiting season of Advent. I’m waist-deep in memory and longing as I tuck Christmas decorations into corners of my home, thinking a bit about what once was and wondering about what could be. Advent embodies this season of in-between we’re experiencing right now. We are…
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The trees lining a nearby neighborhood are tipped the color of wine. The green is so deep, it’s become another shade altogether, offering a hint of autumn on an afternoon drive. Fall is my favorite season, but I’m not ready for the romance of firewood and falling leaves just yet. I feel suspended in time as this past spring and summer…
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Last December, when the coming year still blinked like a star in our swiftly tilting universe, I decided on a whim to write a poem a day. As I juggled grading end-of-term research papers alongside the chaos of Christmas, I also juggled words in the evenings. I threw a few in the air and tried to catch them elegantly as…
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Hello, dear readers. I’m writing to you from the kitchen table. As I write, the ceiling above me creaks with the weight of my husband’s footfall as he paces through his fifth conference call. My daughter jokingly throws a running shoe at her brother, who leaps up from the sofa to chase her. This alarms the dog, who barks and…
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