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Saturday, at Art Beat, Somerville's largest cultural festival, I experienced A Moment: The nearby band playing Elvis Costello's "(What So ...

There is an us in this famous Marshall Ganz statement. I keep forgetting that. Called to follow Micah's admonition to do ...

Tuesday,  having spent some wonderful time with our Tarrytown, NY family, my husband and I explored that part of the ...

Slowly, slowly, my siblings and I have been disposing of the enormous amount of stuff my parents left behind. That ...

Last evening after the rain had ended, I was walking along one of Cambridge Common's asphalt paths when I noticed ...

This morning after a long silence I received a text from the man I had been visiting in prison. He's ...

Saturday I attended the memorial for Paul Hood, a much revered peace activist and former member of Friends Meeting at ...

Yesterday at meeting for worship, an elderly man struggled to stand and then spoke so quietly that almost no-one could ...

Sunday night, partly out of curiosity, mostly to accompany my wonderful nephew, I went to Boston's House of Blues to ...

I'm old enough to remember when clothing first became a major form of advertisement, self or Calvin Klein et al ...

Sunday, I found myself on my feet at meeting for worship to praise a "benign, loving, transformative, regenerative force" that ...

Buoyed by a weekend with precious family, I felt brave enough to read this. And then I finished my coffee ...

Palm Sunday I was walking towards Friends Meeting at Cambridge (FMC) when I caught sight of a small procession outside the ...

When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching ...

Somerville High School Temporary Ramp, March, 2019 There's a wonderful cartoon depicting an elementary school entrance after a big snowstorm ...

Sunset, Puerto Rico; March 14, 2019 Like crocuses, a conversation about the perils of perfectionism keeps popping up among my ...

View From El Yunque National Forest; March 13, 2019 “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of ...

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Hudson River Ice, Piedmont, NY Learning how to utilize this new, spiffy site. Learning how to think and to see horizontally when, ...

Snow Squall Outside, Peace Cranes Inside Yesterday was disquieting. Morning snow squalls were quickly followed by heavy winds, so strong ...

Thursday, a warm and sunny post-snowstorm day, while visiting my daughter and her family in Tarrytown, New York, I'd asked ...

After listening to WellingUp.net's podcasts, my daughter questioned an important, fundamental decision: "Why did you begin the story with Rocco's ...

May I be a boring old woman who talks about her health? Thank you. Because what I'd like to say ...

[Patsy Cline's salt and pepper collection, Patsy Cline Museum, Nashville, Tennessee] A wonderful surprise happened in 2018: I made two ...

I am delighted to report that the Friends Journal will publish my "Sweet Baby Jesus" on December 1st! And that ...