by Debra Dolan I am writing this on Canada Day delighted in knowing that my darling Michael’s mother’s remarkable life is honoured in our national newspaper. There is a wonderful regular feature titled “Lives Lived” which “celebrates the everyday, extraordinary, unheralded lives of Canadians who have recently passed”. Margaret was a proud American-Canadian who was […]
Women Writing
May 25 – Lost Then Found
By Letty Watt With eyes still sleepy I turned on the computer this morning to write. No plans on the calendar for anything but ‘write.’ I thumbed through books looking for inspiration from which to write a new “Found” poem. My eyes widened with a page showing words that matched my soul today, then my […]
April 29 – Inner Landscapes
by Ariela Zucker “Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.” Charles Lindbergh On the road to my daughter’s home, this morning, I drive by the river. I look at its shimmering blue, now that it got freed from the […]
April 15 – My Grave Concerns
by Ariela Zucker This morning I look at the old oak tree towering over the yard and realize that the snow is receding. At the bottom of the tree, I can see a small heap of stones. It is there that we buried, my cat, Sheleg (snow) last October. She died before the snow came […]
March 25 – Mortality Musings
by Kalí Rourke Mom Rourke was declining at 92 years old. The scalpel sharp intellect and memory we had enjoyed for years was slowly but inevitably eroding, and for a while, Mom railed in anger and frustration at her loss of control. We learned so much as my husband’s older sister cared for Mom during […]
March 18 – Little Joys
by Suzanne Adam The words spoke to me. While scanning my email Inbox, the title of Maria Popova’s latest “Brainpickings” post caught my eye: “Hermann Hesse on Little Joys, Breaking the Trance of Busyness, and the Most Important Habit for Living with Presence.” I opened the post. I read that in his 1905 essay “On […]