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READ MOREWell, I feel like I can breathe for the first time in over a week. January is rough at the best of times, but the severed, sluggish start to 2021 snatched the crown without mercy. From climbing the walls and drafting irrate escape plans to burying myself in books and films; once the welcome distraction […]
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READ MOREIsolation has become our everyday. Zoom is our window to the world. I haven’t seen my family for two and a half years. I had tickets to visit them in March 2020 – go figure. Summer provided a brief respite where we danced in meadows and barbecued on beaches and tried our best to maintain […]
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READ MOREWinter is here. No, not me, the season. I welcome it with mixed feelings. ❆ I was born in winter, so maybe that’s why I feel a certain affinity with it. As much as I love long days of sunshine and late summer evenings spent in fields, forests and oceans, there is something familiar and […]
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Many years ago, Hazel visited my mind, ever so briefly. Like a tiny shooting star, I could barely make her out against the darkness. But I did see her. She was dreamy and hopeful, on the precipice of some great adventure that we had both yet to experience. Like me, Hazel was a slow bloomer, […]