We can grow as individuals and as a community (locally, nationally and internationally) by examining our views of death, what they say about us, and how it can help us while living.
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A Note On Understanding
The following is an abridged version of an editorial I wrote for American Athenaeum Magazine’s “The Understanders” issue in Winter 2012. The summer before last, a high school friend of my husband, who was also becoming a friend of mine, asked me one night, out of the blue, “How are you so nice to people?” I was surprised by […]
Of Spring and What It Means
It’s spring now — the azaleas and dogwoods in our yard are in bloom; the little songbirds are singing their mating calls; a haze of pollen hangs in the air, swirls in the wind, coats everything in sight with its green-yellow hue; and, on March 22, two days after the vernal equinox, I gave birth […]
Nightmares in Oil: The Art of Francis Bacon
Ruminations on the work and person of Francis Bacon