Get on the Train
It doesn’t matter where the train’s going. What matters is that you…get….on. paraphrased from a closing line of Tom Hanks’ in “The Polar...
Mount Washington Hotel
My husband decided that with the money he received from his December birthday and the football pool winnings he received, he would buy...
Tolerance
Watching the daily roster of Republican Presidential candidates shouting their ideals at us and each other and then Rush Limbaugh who...
Why I'm Glad I Work...#2
I enjoy Portland more as a fifty-year-old person than I ever did when I was young. Certainly, it’s changed in the last thirty years, and...
Why I'm Glad I Work...#1
A few Friday’s ago, we had a snow storm and Portland schools were cancelled. I still had to go to work; our office is more dependable...
Intimacy
Intimacy is an elusive word. You think you’re intimate if you love someone. Not so. You think you’re intimate if you’re physically...
Winter
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” Albert Camus I’m not sure if I could live in a temperate...
Sabbatical
To a mother, one day alone is the equivalent of a 3-month sabbatical for non-mothers. I had the good fortune to have to drive my son to...
Away at a Camp in Maine
Early July, I self-published a small travel memoir, Away at a Camp in Maine, through Createspace.com, an arm of Amazon. I wrote the book...