Lent 2023 - Dippers

Ayana and Jamal Johnson set out in separate cars for the concert at Yardley High. Folu had left earlier, picked up by a friend. He’d been nervous, tr…

An irony, an hypocrisy, an ignorance? that we grow up believing so hard in family and the rugged individual — more of what advertising has leaned har…

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” — Che Guevara Tonight in my body wi…

I am not afraid of death, but I have no interest in prolonging my life. I have had the link saved forever for Stanford’s ‘What matters Most Letter.’ …

When these 40 days of writing began my sister was still alive. I had just visited her, been at a party in her house, and conceived of a plan for the …

I once apologized to a college friend: "I'm sorry; I'm only temporary." It was a jest, but truth be told we each come with an expi…

When death and serious illness strike all around you, it triggers inevitable thoughts about your own mortality. Heaven offers everlasting life, but d…

I spent many years of my young adulthood being haunted by Elizabeth Kubler Ross, the person who wrote On Death and Dying. She who coined the stages o…

This quotation evokes a funny family story. When Mama was in graduate school, she was expecting a call from a friend one afternoon. The phone rang an…

I was entrusted with the recipe for Coke I was entrusted with the Nuclear Launch codes I was . entrusted with the key to a dragon's hoard Eight I…

Today, Good Friday, from 1-3pm the labyrinth was set up in the parish hall. The last time I walked it was in 2019.It is a canvas reproduction of the …

We went to see a different dog than the one we came home with. Call it fate? We were the first ones to show up when the rescue opened at 9:00 a.m. …

This may be entirely dum dum writing tonight. I am a disorderly person who has spent the day doing orderly things leaving my brain cells in an exhaus…

"Go find my grandmother," my mother implored. "Go to North Carolina and search through the records in Raleigh." This summer I wil…

Once upon a time long, long ago before cell phones and texts, even before email, I heard a knock at my backdoor. Through the glass panes, I saw Sally…

I’m the eldest of three siblings and I somehow became the genealogist for our family. My parents are long dead and both my husband and I did DNA test…

Day 39: Entrusted Placido/Placida had told him her last name was “Halbert” and that she did therapeutic counseling online. Finding her was relatively…

The Covid-19 pandemic brought about a few changes in my life. Church moved totally online before returning to monthly in person worship out doors. Zo…

In researching a bit about the difference between plague and pandemic, as I was inspired to do by today's writing prompt, I learned that one of t…

“Someone from HR caught your solar-panel talk, or part of it anyway, on the news. So, I was told about it and came up with an idea. We’d like to do a…

California has its claws in me. At least that is what it feels like tonight. For the 3rd time during this 40 days, 40 Writes process, and for the 5th…

When Covid-19 closed down the world, I was a freshly minted widow living alone. Still mourning one death, I watched in fear as this new disease kille…

The unimaginable dance of chaos with order, matter with energy, the interconnectedness of everything that shows up in Bell's inequalities, the ut…

Our buddy Ben, he's into US history, seems to think the wigs and stockings clan were onto something signal: their freedom rant and life and happi…

Of all the many reflections on Covid, I treasure one immensely as it is a knowledge I might not have known otherwise until the waning weeks of my lif…