When Meaning Eludes Us
Once, when I was teaching college,I had a student from Wyoming in one of my classes. When I asked him how he liked it here on the East Coast, he said, “I like it well enough, but I get homesick…
Mad Men and the Carousel of Memory
We're captive on the carousel of time.... Joni MitchellOn the Season One finale of Mad Men, Don Draper is seen making a pitch to executives of Eastman Kodak, who are looking for an advertising agency to market their new product…
To Muse or Not To Muse – A Woman’s Quest(ion)
I wrote this piece several months ago and chose at that time not to publish it to my blog. When I shared it with a few women friends and colleagues, they said that they connected with it, some of them…
Solfeggio*
*1. Voice practice where the syllables of notes are sung, silently in your own mind.. 2. Healing soundsShe lives in the in-betweenThe hollow that divides dreams from realityThe space between the notes on the pageAnd the sounds of the music…
Starting Anew and Living on the Hyphen.
When I first began this blog in September of 2008, I had recently retired from a 34 year career as a public school teacher in the School District of Philadelphia. For those 34 years, my classroom along with my family…