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  Leaving is never easy, and when I finally made the decision to go, I found myself figuratively awash in a bowl of sorrows.  Concurrently I was making pottery for the first time in over twenty years and decided to make a literal “Bowl of Sorrows” into which I would try to pour all of […]

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Right from the start I will state I don’t like runny eggs. Runny eggs, however are taking over the world, so I think I may need to learn to like them. Half the food pictures I see when I scroll through Instagram are dishes of all manner topped with runny eggs, some poached, some fried, […]

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I wish you a Happy New Year, and I offer you a word, my word for 2015. I was fairly happy with my word for 2014 which was JOY. I think joy had a good run, though I feel like by December I was running out of it. A few disappointments, both personal and professional, getting […]

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  Shining My Flashlight on the Moon is the title of both a song, and a CD by Christine Lavin. That image even more than the lyrics, has stayed with me since I first encountered it.  When I was nine I went to sleep-away camp for the first time. I spent the first week feeling […]

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I have a huge, dream kitchen, but as capacious as it is, sometimes I feel like there’s no more room in there. When we moved from our little house into the house we’re in now my daughter spun around with glee and counted all the drawers and cabinets, “There are so many!” I’ve spent a lifetime […]

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