I lay awake in bed, and a small grief opened like a night blooming flower. I found the well of…
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Archives for May 2017
The One Question I Ask Again and Again
“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”…
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When a Meal Becomes a Work of Art
This year, I gave my husband the gift of an Italian cuisine cooking class at a local cooking school for…
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How to Navigate a Season of Endings
As summer approaches, bringing with it big changes in the life of our family, I find myself feeling out of…
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Discovering Ourselves in the Face of a Stranger
We noticed a small knot of locals—a group of elderly men sitting together on a bench nearby, chatting in Italian,…
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