Category: New Year

  • REASONABLE HOPE

     In a conversation recently, I brought up my sadness over the upcoming change in this country’s leadership. This isn’t about politics; more, it’s about atmosphere. The woman I was talking with shares that sadness, and we discussed how to handle it. She suggested that instead of being sorrowful for the way the impending leader has…

  • A SNOWFLAKE IS A MINERAL

    Last winter, I decided to find out how a snowflake forms. So fantastical, when immersed in a cloud of bright gray, to suddenly notice a single crystal, and then another, and see how the two are so alike and yet not at all the same. A snowflake, as it turns out, is a mineral. It…

  • NEW YEAR

    That was a damn tough year. I’m trying to think of the parts that weren’t tough, and to understand that the hard parts helped me grow and learn. I wrote poems, not many, but more than I wrote the past few years. I cooked a lot and made up new recipes, and tried others’ recipes.…