Just Below the Surface

Marmalade

It’s my birthday week! I’m turning 60. And I’ve received my first gift. I am a lucky girl!

Vigilance

THE WISEST THING I KNOW

This is the first, the wildest, and the wisest thing I know
that the soul exists and is built entirely out of…

Biscuits

DON’T HESITATE

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,
don’t hesitate. Give in to it. 
There are plenty
of lives and whole towns destroyed
or…

2020

Initially, we froze. Frozen in the headlights of a global pandemic.
We waited there one month…

Pandemic

What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath — 
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up…

LONGING

I’m LONGing for Spring.
I feel a bit ashamed because winter was gentle this year.
Kind, even.
And my LONGing feels whiney.
Chances are once…

CHRISTMAS

It’s Christmas morning. We are in Nairobi, staying in the home of dear friends who have been stateside for some weeks. The garden is…