It’s never too late to acquire a new slant on something. Recently at a gathering my sister Anna was ready to leave and didn’t want to interrupt the host who was involved in what looked like a comfortable conversation with a good friend. I said I felt the same way. And she slipped away without [...]
My cousin and friend, a woman I’ve known since our baby teeth began to fall out, died on 24 July 2007. We didn’t get to travel to Italy together as planned, and she didn’t take the trips intended with her children, Caroline and Sean, but what she did do through her pain was to live [...]
Have you ever stayed up with someone in the wee hours of the morning? The night is quiet, most people are asleep, the busyness of the day hasn’t yet begun, and talk is easy and comfortable. Conversation comes and goes and you’re comfortable with whatever is said, and you’re both relaxed. No matter what the [...]
I think eat pray love is a very appropriate title for Elizabeth Gilbert’s book. She touches upon the many different feelings she experienced during the dissolution of her marriage, a new relationship with great possibilities but not meant to be, deep depression, and a new beginning. All right! Her words don’t weigh heavily on the [...]