I prowl through budding milkweed and prickly blackberry plants for an hour looking for Monarch eggs and don’t find one. Monarchs are usually here by now, but I’ve only seen three. Last week, I found nine viable eggs—four are still caterpillars and five are now chrysalises, but I haven’t found a new egg for a […]

Every morning, I walk with my dogs before breakfast. Since one of my bird nesting boxes is near the trail head, I often checked in to see how the resident Tree Swallow family was doing. At last count, there were four eggs in a nest decorated with all sorts of feathers she’d collected. Each new […]

“I love you, David,” I say when my North Carolina son arrives on Thursday night. Because of the pandemic, I haven’t seen him for 8 months, so I wrap my arms around him and press my cheek into his warm solid chest. His beard tickles my forehead. We share a bowl of minestrone soup and […]

“I had a dream about you, Marion,” I said. “I typed it up.” I handed Marion Woodman an envelope with the dream inside when we passed each other on the conference center stairs. I’d had this dream before arriving at a weeklong BodySoul Rhythm Workshop in 2003. “We’ll make time to talk about it,” Marion […]

When our son David and I arrived at the hospital room that morning in 2008, Vic sat upright, his bare legs hanging over the side of the bed. He looked exhausted and uncomfortable, but it was the only position that allowed him to breathe. His eyes were half-closed and full of misery and love. “While […]

“I can’t stop,” I said, choking out the words between my tears. “I just can’t…” Erotic attraction had been a big part of our lives since we met the year before at the beginning of my senior year at Cornell, but in 1967 I planned to leave Ithaca and go to graduate school in California. […]