The View

Expectations

The unrelenting heat of a Tennessee summer morning has me longing for vacation. My mind is anything but idle, as I long for the cool breezes and idyllic beauty of Cape Cod.  Memories of one such anticipated vacation several years…

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My Year of Shalom

Good days and less than good days all conspire to form a life. What will this year bring? This story began with winter’s chill and has passed through a pastel spring, on the way to the verdant green of early…

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On the Outside Looking In

Perhaps a chameleon, perhaps a fraud, either way, I’m on the outside looking in.  The way I felt when my mother slammed the back door tightly shut and told me to stay out.  There was a definitive inside and a…

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Art School Afternoon

The chill of yesterday has given way to a delicious warmth as I sit on this roughhewn pine bench, chalky crushed stone beneath my feet, on the grounds of the Provincetown Art Association Museum. Waiting for art class to begin,…

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