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A Necessary Leaving
Now it is I who has done the leaving. Not in the forever way my mother left. No, nothing so gut wrenching as that. My leaving is only temporary and promises an eventual return. A necessary leaving,...
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But If She Could
She would if she could, so clearly she cannot—come back. I know she would have come back if she could. She promised. We joked about it before her passing. She promised me that once she had made it...
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2011~ I Bid You Adieu
It is difficult to fathom that it is nearly over—this year of spectacular highs and devastating lows—but truth is like that sometimes. One year ago today we sat in my mother’s living room— a rally of...
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Bonjour 2012
I already like your style. You showed up on my balmy terrace the other night all Zen-like, and blanketed me with such gentleness and peace I didn’t even notice 2011 sneaking out the door. Nice move...
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No Longer In Service
It is so strange—a regrettable part of the process—everyday I have been in this spectacularly beautiful, exquisitely peaceful place I have had the same thought: I have to call Mom. Everyday. The...
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Stop.
It is good to be home. After nearly a month in a tropical paradise replete with expansive sun-kissed beaches and balmy nights spent on my lanai—it is good to be home. The trip to the peaceful place...
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Tea and Sympathy
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” ~Kenji Miyazawa A lovely man extended his condolences to me today—a man I had never met before: “I’m so sorry to hear about your mom,” he...
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Sacred Spaces
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~Joseph Campbell It needn’t be a church, or a temple, or a mosque—a sacred space can be any place that clears a path for your soul to...
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Time Traveling
Me, anchoring the evening news, Tampa, circa 1985 During my 20-year career in broadcasting I lived in many cities. From small market to large, I worked my way up the proverbial ladder, never having...
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Here we are, getting ready to enter the second week of February, and already I’m having conversations with month number two, admonishing it to slow down. 2013 is a-month-and-some-change shorter but...
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Life is short. I have carried this oft-articulated mantra in my heart for more years than I can remember, having experienced the gravity of its true meaning when my dad died suddenly, in mid-life....
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