In an old movie, “The Way We Were” the character played by Barbra Streisand tells her soon to be ex-husband, Robert Redford, that: “People ARE their principles.” I guess that’s something I know, something I’ve found out, that what we…

Life is a perplexing thing at best.... By then, I was spending time living at Paul’s. We’d settled into an air-conditioned, companionable routine, with me picking him up at the Guthrie Scene Shop at 6:00 p.m. , going grocery shopping…

At night I dreamed of him. stunned by a pillar of light as he approaches the summit of Mount Olive and he collapses, not from resurrection but from hunger and fatigue and, mostly, the ecstasy of falling to his knees…

Yep…..stunned into ecstasy? Music does it for me. John Williams’ soaring “E.T.” Theme, which I wore tapes out listening to after first seeing the film years ago, and more recently the lush theme from Studio Ghibli’s “Howl’s Moving Castle”, (…

A few years before she died, I was at my mother’s place just hanging out kibbitzing (Yiddish for chit-chatting), playing cards, laughing. By that time, she was in a wheelchair and had serious heart disease, but she was as sharp…

My husband Kenji and I were out walking. When he got stopped to take a call from his brother Howard’s hospital doctor, I stepped away away to identify some migratory ducks – I had just seen one of the easiest,…

IF you stop and think about it, well....it's actually impossible to grasp, isn't it? The infinite numbers of people, places, events, cataclysms, inventions, decisions, beliefs, more decisions, wars, love-making, pyramid building, children born, words written, religions conceived, thrones denied, peace…

We were not born yet, but we meant to be born. The life force propelled us, willed us into existence. We swam out of a watery womb into an air-filled space as our lungs pulled in air for the first…

Like a good German, Bella continued in the trenches of France for the next year. Five days at the front, five days in the reserve trenches and twenty days rest. Bella was never wounded. Big Bella was invincible. At the…

A person wants to stand in a happy place. I want to stand in a happy place, and stoveside is but one of those places, a place to cook homemade soup, as I stand and improvise a recipe for organic…