Category Archives: My Blog

When my daughters were little I loved Thanksgiving.  For once I didn’t mind getting up by seven.  I’d sneak down to the kitchen to chop up the onions, mushrooms and celery for the stuffing, still my favorite part of the … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago my old friend Margaret, whom I’ve known since high school, emailed that she had started to read my memoir, which I had finally remembered to send her.  I was quite nonplussed to discover that my … Continue reading →

We are leaving for Glacier National Park tomorrow, and will return by Monday, November 14th.  I won’t be posting a blog before that time, or checking in with Facebook.  Hope your week is as good as ours! Tweet

First Installment. Last week I discovered that Kindle, at Amazon.com, was selling another book in place of “Little Nancy” if anyone tried to buy that version.  How did I learn about this?  A friend from college whom I haven’t seen … Continue reading →

Yesterday I talked with a woman I haven’t seen or spoken to in over thirty years.  We both attended Sarah Lawrence College in the late 60’s, sat in, took writing classes, talked endlessly about our lives and the meaning of … Continue reading →

In the summer my parents would take my sister and me to a place called the Chatham Pool.  It was a water hole, really, not a paved pool, with a grassy area around the entire pool where we would picnic.  … Continue reading →

This weekend Port Townsend had its 12th Film Festival.  One of the films was about a little girl who uses a medical journal of her father’s to learn about adolescent changes and to educate a little boy on her Dad’s … Continue reading →

Before you think I’ve lost my mind, or whatever is left of it, this is not what I believe, but what I was told as a kid.  And it has had lasting influence on my life, time and time again. … Continue reading →