Synchronicity and Other Chance Events

My mind and spirit have been energized like the commercial bunny, going, going, going. More accurately perhaps is the fluffy Cottontail variety, that’s aligned with the colored eggs of springtime. This commercial holiday another trumped up sacrilege dipped in chocolate….

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Raging Hormones

Raging Hormones and Other Tales From the Battlefield

If there was any doubt as to my menopausal status, three events occurred today that irrevocably altered my pretense of hormonal balance. I haven’t exhibited the usual mood swings and hot flashes that you hear so much about, spoken of…

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Changing Tides

Changing Tides

The same view of Provincetown harbor which was full of promise and hope yesterday, is now dark and gray.  Blanketed with rain overnight, the harbor is like my heart and mind, cold and heavy this morning. Such is my battle….

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Vacation Blues

Vacation Blues

  Amazingly, our grand week in Cape Cod is coming to an end, the last morning of vacation quickly upon us.  The blue of melancholy is in every gallery painting, and even the moonlit sky is somehow sad.  Provincetown is…

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The Most American Holiday

Having just celebrated the most American of holidays, the Fourth of July, I’m torn between colliding and seemingly disparate philosophies of life, “be here now” and “the American dream”. After all, we’re free to pursue our slice of the dream…

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Cotton Candy Sunrise

My sleepless nights are punctuated with frequent trips to the bathroom, my diligent adherence to that staple of healthy living, hydration, is paying fabulous renal dividends.  My kidneys wake me with a distant, siren call, far off in slumber land,…

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Cries on the Wind

Cries On the Wind

On a gorgeous, sun soaked July afternoon, the haunting cries from next door echoed a poignant faintness.  The crying tears of a stranger made their way on a cool breeze to my vacationing ears, and it was the last thing…

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Early Morning Light

Have you been fortunate enough to discover the perfect vacation destination, and enjoy both the place and the experience year after year? We escaped the summer heat of Southwest Florida for the past thirteen years, arriving at the tip of…

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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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