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I have loved the stars too fondly

I just love this saying. It speaks to my optimism and my firm belief that things always get better and our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. It’s from a poem about an old astronomer speaking to a young apprentice. But I think it speaks to how we all deal with darkness […]

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Squeak

So I saw my sweet chickadees off on their grand European vacation with their dad. I drove them all to the airport. My daughter hugged me hard and said, “You’re not going to cry all the way home, are you?” I’m a crier. She knows this. And I’ve cried every other time I’ve dropped them […]

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Reblooming!

Flower-lovin’ peeps! I have long heard about this elusive “reblooming” iris, that put in first flower in the spring, as iris usually do, but then come back in summer. I’ve even bought several of these legendary beauties, all to no avail. I’ve reliably gotten the spring bloom, but never the summer one. Until now! It […]

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Finally!

I was moved with pride when Hillary Clinton became the first woman to get enough primary votes to become the nominee of a major political party. Politics aside for a moment, this is an historic moment for women. It’s interesting that for many young women the idea of a female president is such a foregone […]

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My thoughts are with you, Fort Myers

It seems we’ve gotten to the point where mass shootings happen with such regularity they bubble to the top of the news cycle, but then fall away almost instantly. That’s why we heard only brief mentions in the national media of a shooting at a teen club in Fort Myers, Florida, and then haven’t heard […]

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Coming together

A few weeks ago, I watched President Obama’s speech at the memorial service for the five Dallas police officers killedin the line of duty. They’d been protecting marchersduring a Black Lives Matter protest against the shooting of two black men in one week. The speech itself had much to recommend it, but I couldn’t help […]

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The trailer I’ve been waiting for!

I was a little girl, newly back in the U.S. and yearning for something to help me feel powerful during a less-than-powerful time in my life. That’s when Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman show came into my life. I discovered the comic books about that time, too, and devoured the whole mythology. I have loved Wonder […]

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My writing habit

For a couple of different reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about I why hunger to write. Both reasons are related. 1, I’ve started work on my memoir about my childhood, and 2, I’ve been reading memoirs to get a good sense for the genre. It’s remarkable (perhaps not surprising, but still somehow worth noting, […]

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Bursting with love

I love my life so completely. I have lucked out in sooo many ways, and I often have to pinch myself to believe that a kid like me got to grow up into a woman so surrounded by love and opportunity. In no area is this more true than in the kids the unknowable universe […]

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Where the land is rugged

It began with Journey to the Center of the Earth. I read it when I was maybe twelve years old, and I was absolutely captivated. I dreamed about it all the time, and imagined finding myself in the Earth’s center, then taking the exciting ride back up the surface like the characters do. But perhaps […]

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