Many years ago, I remember talking with my sister about how numb we were growing up. Because there were so many of us kids, we learned to tolerate any situation, any temperature, without worrying about how we were feeling. She was going through therapy, as was I, and at one point in the conversation, she […]
For Dan and Liliana
This is for you, my love. And this is for you, my cherub. I love you. You know that? [Post image: Dan and Liliana looking at paintings in the Louvre, Paris, January 2011]
For My Fellow Math Geeks
Secret: I was a math major for two years. Well, that’s how long I lasted anyway… I began to crave live things (or at least things that had been living). I guess dead turtles and frogs and sharks, deep in the bowels of dissection labs, don’t count. But look! Isn’t it amazing how nature and numbers […]
Being a Human Bridge
I’m reading Mark Nepo’s The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life, and I’ve come to the chapter entitled “You Must Reverse the Haiku.” Here’s Nepo, explaining. “So, the question each day becomes: When pressed by life, do I bridge or isolate? Do I reconnect the web of life and listen to its wisdom? […]
Poetry Selections for a Holiday
It’s Poetry Month, for a little while longer. This week I was elated to hear Kay Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. Her poems are like urgent, succinct drops of observation. And can I just add (whisper, whisper)—understandable? I’m not a fan of the new rage of […]