Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
-
A horse named Raven pulled me deep into this story, a historical tale set in Puritan-era New England where a woman named Silence is punished for expressing outsized emotions and must endure a year of not speaking. Of course I would gravitate to author Julia Park Tracey’s book. A while ago, I took up that…
-
It’s whimsy, OK? But it’s more than that. We stumbled on Stan Peterson’s work by accident, when a road trip we planned didn’t pan out and we needed a new destination. So. We’re lying on a blanket under a shady tree in Spokane’s Riverfront Park (wonderful, surprising, must-be-visited). We’re bummed because we can’t proceed to…
-
Nia dance instructor Dael Parsons gave me a gift, a method of being more fully myself. Her strategy — simply noticing what was happening with her students, then gently guiding — was what I needed. I walked into her dance class almost seven years ago. Newly retired, I had become the boss of all my…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 