I like September’s style and the way she saunters in with her optimistic sunshine and I-Knew-You’d-Like-Me grin. I never set a table when I hear she’s stopping by since I’m clinging hard to summer — I don’t want to say good-bye. But September’s always patient with my inhospitality. She’s shows up promptly anyway with kind [...]
One of the first American women to become a published author, Phillis Wheatley was both a prodigy and a slave. Captured in her native Senegal at the tender age of seven and named after the ship that transported her to Boston in 1753, Phillis landed in the household of Susanna and John Wheatley. The Wheatleys [...]
I recently got to spend some time with two people who have immersed themselves in the wine culture. So, I’ve been sipping the good stuff, from grapes and in life. Father Gordon Gilsdorf described that analogy beautifully in this poem: On Being 50. Wines grow bitter with age or better. 50 is a vintage year, [...]
Yesterday, not coincidentally on International Women's Day, I texted with one of the strongest women I know. My sister in-law Carol, who received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2019, has been rising to the biggest challenge in her life with grace, poise, poetry and love. Her husband John, a [...]
"I want to be rich!" the small boy said as he wished upon a star And the wise moon whispered back, “You already are.” “I wish to be rich!” the small boy said to the dandelion seed. And the wind it rode on answered, “You have everything you need.” “I want to be real rich,” [...]