In a thin white dress you used to float above my sun salutation But now I look up and am struck blind by the place you no longer are When the darkness comes it comes and comes in waves and the waves break on me And the breaking...
The woman shows me how to lay the fire – “just this once, and then you’re on your own,” she says. Fires must breathe, she explains. They are greedy for oxygen. I’m a guest in these woods, and this is how I am...
Last week I took my mother to lunch with the girls. The girls range in age from eighty-five to ninety-three. They eat lunch the first Tuesday of every month at Mancusa’s, famous for its grilled oysters, on Napoleon Avenue. I...
"All stress, anxiety, depression, is caused when we ignore who we are and start living to please others."
-Paulo Coelho-
