“The slow, sad piano melody and the floor of the lake I knew intimately as a child.” LUCKY FISH My mom, her friend Jackie, my daughter Angelina, and I all drove up to Lake George today. It was a cold day, and I didn’t want to stay outside, so I sat in the car trying [...]
How do you know when it’s time to say goodbye? To move on? To go separate ways? There comes a point for many people, whether it’s with the true love of your life, the gang at church, your oldest friend, or a group you used to hang with, when something is just not the way it was. So what to do? And when to do it?
The four clovers to tight tethers, Green shades shine with glory Colors illuminate warmth through our thoughts and our hearts. by: JoyAnne O’Donnell
Invisible wall
imprisons a soul.
Fear saturates a
body – once
brave,
strange, how I already knew
women were treated different
than men – back then…
I light the match and I drop it into the fireplace I see the smoke billowing and I can feel the heat on my face I see the match turning into ash you see No longer able to ignite no longer able to provide heat for me It is cold outside and the cabin is [...]
Frozen in her soft brown eyes, that tender touching stare. Reminds me of the failing skies, those gentle clouds of ware. Now as she bows her head to cry, I see a falling tear. Like rain cast from the sky, but its sound I do not hear. For where this tear falls I cannot reach, to wipe it [...]
So Christmas has rolled around again. And we’ve come so far from where we were last year! Though there was love and real joy last year there was still shock and no way to have found any real acceptance of what our son’s diagnosis meant. We’d no basis for understanding where we’d go, what we [...]
I am a Swiss citizen now residing in Germany, but I used to live just outside of Geneva. When my first daughter was almost a year old, I decided to go back to work and had to find not only a new job but also the special person who would care for my child. This [...]
