Early fragments

Title courtesy of Cat Stevens. (Yes, you can expect to see his words hereabouts for a while. I go through these things, you know. They pass. Something in me is made very glad by Mr. Stevens' voice and words just now.) Husband update: He is here. When getting ready for the surgery, his doctor noti...

Is it my physical proximity? Is there something wrong with me?I am walking around in a state of fear and sorrow the likes of which I don't believe I could have imagined before Tuesday. Only I just can't seem to cry. At all. I just want the release and the health of crying to pour…

"I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good inside." - Anne Frank

The shock is just now hitting me. I am shaking. I spent the whole day only 15 minutes - walking - from the World Trade Center. My children's classrooms reverberated from the impact of the second crash.My world and my life are inexorably changed.I have to go and be. We are all alive and unharmed&h...

Yesterday my little angel of light turned 8.This is the boy they had to knock me out to deliver.The tiny 4-days-late fetus in distress who started life with his eyes wide open.The Cub Scout who, after a troop-wide crying homesickness jag on the second night of a camping trip, went over to his tro...

In the predawn darknessbefore the busy worldpulls me up and outinto its fevered paceI*Breatheand sip some coffee(sweet and strong)and with no defenses upI slowly dawn intowakefulness.

Oh the joy friends bring us. Today I had to deal with two very negative people. I came home tired and with a headache and a bit of a heartache and just feeling sad. Then I thought of all the fun I've had over the last few days just chatting away with some newly minted…

A school should be supplied withsufficient quantities of purple skiesand impossible flowersand improbable beasts.*A school hallway should glisten fromwho I amand why are thoseand where you might be going.*A school's people should burst incolor-filled singingand whacked-out tubasand the sounds of ...

My body longs for meaningful intimacy with a woman. Intimacy that is physical, yes, but also intellectual; emotional; spiritual. It is a level of intimacy I truly believe can only be achieved between another woman and myself; perhaps my desire is so great that it clouds my awareness of and dims m...

I always wanted to use that expression. But how mundane are the things I must do!I have to place phone calls to two people who I have come to dislike and mistrust but with whom I must work; unless of course they refuse to work with me, in which case things get even more unpleasant…