Tag Archives: life

Spirit/Essay. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Posted on September 1, 2018 by healingwoman

U.S. Senator John McCain will be buried today, one of many people throughout the world: some famous, many little known, too many unknown except to families or to God. Some people will have no one to bury them. When I … Continue reading →

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Spirit/Essay. Of mirrors and marathons. Reflections five years after Hell came home.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by healingwoman

It is April in New England, and the marathon has come again. Since 2013, race day is not a simple joy anymore. It is the anniversary of a bombing. It is the day we learned how strong we really were, … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Destination and the Journey.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by healingwoman

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. The Storm.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by healingwoman

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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Essay. My Life in Pets V. Lily and Motherhood.

Posted on October 26, 2016 by healingwoman

I got Teddy to make my husband happy. Lily came when Teddy got lupus and I panicked at a possible dogless life. Lily lived with the fear there was a party somewhere she was missing. She never missed one. Lily … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Road Home.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by healingwoman

After a long, hot, drought-stricken summer, autumn is here. The dogs chased balls today without starting to pant. One day this week I wore jeans comfortably rather than shorts. In an earlier time, before we had dogs and a child, … Continue reading →

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Essay. Looking Back on the Road not Taken.

Posted on June 20, 2016 by healingwoman

I recited a poem before high school graduation: “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, not because any of us were examining at our choices, but because I thought everyone who lived long enough would one day — like the … Continue reading →

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Essay. Pets of My Life II. Teddy, Life and Death.

Posted on May 3, 2016 by healingwoman

In an impossibly small span of years, Teddy was my first puppy, my first hiking companion, and my first terribly ill pet, with lupus that ravaged his body from the age of 2 onward. At age 7, Teddy was terminally … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Bridge.

Posted on January 5, 2016 by healingwoman

I am in love with an old house that is near ours. It sits beside a brook that empties into the river at the bottom of the hill. The house was built in the 1780s when the United States was … Continue reading →

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Essay. The Train to Baltimore.

Posted on August 15, 2015 by healingwoman

A song that I loved as a child says “And when I’m dead, and when I’m gone, there will be one child born in this world to carry on.” Today is dark and rainy. I have heard of so many … Continue reading →

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