Back to school reading for grownups. By the time a woman is thirty, she has experienced loss, most likely. It's true for men too, I'm sure, but in Letters For Scarlet, a book about grief, friendship, grace, and courage, the losses are felt most keenly through the eyes of … [Read more...]
Wordless Wednesday: Love Thee, Notre Dame
c. April, 1993, Spring Break, Matamoros, Mexico … [Read more...]
You Are Me
Who do you trust? I trust my good old friends, the ones I have had since I was 14 and we all rode the bus to school together in our maroon uniforms with the knee socks and the boat shoes whose laces we fashioned into bizarre little curlicues on the outside of the hole so that … [Read more...]
My Tortured Beacon
I want to tell you about my friend Robin. The first thing you should know about her is that she is dead. She was 38 when she took a scarf, a white scarf that looked like it couldn't hold a purse, much less a heavy, flailing 38-year-old woman, tied it to her canopy bed frame, … [Read more...]