Monthly Archives: May 2017

Thought for the Day. If we live on the head of a pin, fragile, do we balance in anxiety…. or do we dance?

Whenever you can, dance….. Elizabeth Coolidge-Stolz, MD/ (c) HealingWoman

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Essay. The Stone Garden.

As a child, I loved a song that includes the refrain “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven.” I hear it when I visit Mount Auburn Cemetery, a landscaped garden for the … Continue reading

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Essay. The Destination and the Journey.

If we return at death from where we came, what is life? Everything in between. ——————- In “The Doomsday Book,” a young woman, an Oxford history student, has the chance to time travel to the middle ages. She becomes ill … Continue reading

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Essay. Patriots’ Day

It is April in New England. Snow is melting, the marathon is coming. Since 2013, that is not a simple joy anymore. It is the anniversary of a bombing, the day none of us were innocent any more, the day … Continue reading

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Essay. The Storm.

Twenty years ago, there was a blizzard on April first, with snow that came over my knees. This year, on the anniversary, there was a smaller storm. My life is captured in the brackets. Then, we thought we knew what … Continue reading

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