Roles — and how we use them, misuse them, abuse them, take them up, take them on, and lay them aside (or don’t) — have been on my mind and heart recently. My husband and I have moved on from the clothing part of ‘tidying up’ to sorting books. We are not yet finished with …
First: A very happy birthday to my brother…who is leaning forward into a new year today. I don’t know about you, but I tend to approach thresholds with many surreptitious glances over my shoulder…sometimes walking backwards into the doorframe in the process. Over my life, as I have prepared to transition from one role to …
What are the material givens and ‘essentials’ of your life, the devices and possessions you take for granted? What is so common to your daily round that you would be startled to live a week, a month, six months, without it? What, for you, comprises ‘normal’? For what do you reach without thinking…and how does …