In Search of Holy Places
“Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.” –Albert Einstein I keep having dreams of not finding the proper outfit to wear. It’s someone else’s closet. It’s my mother’s, my dorm roommate, or everything’s too tight or too loose. And […]
MoreMissing them will be easily remedied in 2 days. On the 3rd day, the drama begins. Even if you insist you can’t take another guest (i.e. there aren’t any more mattresses) they will find a way. Like tie your couch pillows with a sheet. And insist they can sleep standing up. No matter how much […]
MoreThere are things that are difficult to write about. This one took me more than a year. But I thought it was time to call out grief and face up to it. And perhaps, another mother out there needs it too. Miscarriages. There were two. The first one I grieved. The second I kept secret. […]
More“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” -Henry David Thoreau Almost the end of the week. The budget envelope is empty. This week’s basket is overflowing with all things green. And still, I have a list of things to buy at the weekend market. I’ve created a “green” eyed monster. The map towards […]
MoreIt took a silly brush with death to realize I was alive. You know how it is in the movies when the angel of death tells the heroine she’s dying in 3 days? The heroine then carries on, to carpe diem her last few days on earth. Well, it doesn’t really happen like that. Here’s […]
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The Girl and the Grail 