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A Whispered Presence
December 3rd is my maternal grandmother’s birthday. She would have been 95. When I close my eyes I still hear her voice, although she has been gone for 34 years. I was blessed…
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What dreams may come…
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ~Albert Camus…
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A Brief Spell of Perfect Weather
I’ve always been friends with books. I credit my mother who often had a book in her hands and would read on the couch in her apron as she waited for dinner to finish…
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Miss Sarton’s Postcard
When I was living near Boston, I found a gentle read at the library filled with references to my favorite city. “The Education of Harriet Hatfield” by May Sarton is a sweet story…
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Fields of Gold
At the end of the summer, I began to worry that I had run out of stories for you but autumn is an endless field of gold, and now that the weather has…
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Mrs. Carlton
I was thrilled that my 7th grade American History teacher was to be Mrs. Barbara Carlton. My older brother had her the year before and told me that she was great. Where we lived…
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September Song
In the unlikely event that I own a boat one fine day, I will name her “September Morn”. September is a gentle month and it inspires me in many ways: the refreshingly cooler temperatures…
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Two Gentlemen
This portrait stunned me at Newport’s Rosecliff Mansion. The hypnotic blue eyes looked deep into mine as if casting a spell. I felt I knew him. There was no identification on the wall…
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Married women will still have their favorites…
Letter from Sarah Haley, Newburyport to Nabby Angell, Boston ~ June 2, 1777 Dear Cousin Nabby, May I flatter myself, My Dear Girl, that a letter from a sober matron, quite removed from…
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Personal
“It’s not personal”, we were told when a few good friends were laid off this week at work. It will be personal to me Monday morning when I walk by one friend’s empty…
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Fall Issue
Vogue has yet to give us a glimpse of the cover of its September issue but we do know that Lady Gaga will grace it. This is the much anticipated thick as a…
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A Desk of One’s Own
Growing up I shared a desk with my sister that my mother refinished and painted to match our bedroom décor. We used it for everything but its intended purpose, homework. It held a…
