Giving
‘Tis the season of giving…and I love it. I love to give. I love to think of what someone would like to have. I love to wrap presents...
Rocket Man
Published on The Huffington Post 8/19/15 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-kalicky/rocket-man_3_b_8002882.html College drop off, second...
Mother and Son
In honor of Timothy Joseph Conley, Jr. and his mom, my friend, Sue Ellen Hayman Monaghan My friend stood so close to her son’s casket...
Criticism
“Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.” Martha Beck author of The Joy Diet Criticism can be thrown freely...
Be Yourself
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Audi ad, Maine magazine, September 2014 I have two novels in process. Painstakingly, I am...
Chartres, France
It was the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral that drew us. But it was the entire village of Chartres that captured my heart and swept me...
Upta Camp
There’s no internet, WIFI or otherwise. In the early days, I wouldn’t even have noticed such a thing. Who cared? I’ve only set up...
Business at the Beach
There’s something not right about lugging an economics book to the beach. I’ve done it….a summer class when I was working to finish my...
Kayaking at Kettle Cove
I have spent a lifetime exploring Kettle Cove, Two Lights State Park, Prout’s Neck and all the nooks and crannies on the ocean around...
Country Wedding
(also published on MariaShriver.com December 12, 2014) It’s a love story. Not naïve, innocent love blissfully anticipating a future of...