Last summer, I turned old. I turned 60.  We gained a second son-in-law in a year’s time.  My job description changed for about the billionth time – without my consent. …

Verse I: There is risk in the air, grown on the waves of hearts full of hope. There are words to be spoken by the souls that you hold in…

There’s a weakness in my soul today.  Lately.  Often. I miss my usual ways.  I’ve lost my candor.  I’ve lost confidence.  I’m tired.  Move slowly.  React slower still. I tell…

For awhile in my 20’s, I had season tickets to the Ohio Ballet at the E.J. Thomas Theater in Akron, OH.  My tickets were in the nosebleed seats.  I had…

I preach it to my students all day long. “Do something out of your comfort zone every day.”  Or something like that.  Whichever version I think fits that individual the…

WHACK a fast sucking in, raspy intake of air silence silence silence and then a wail that starts high and climbs immediately to a piercing pitch. This is the ‘drop…

And in this moment. On this morning. Surrounded by familiar: coffee, pets, sunshine, and the clutter of my everyday life: I admit to that feeling of grief. Change. Longing for tiny blonde curls under a purple tutu hat. Mud pie mixtures, snow clothes piled to the ceiling, mime rehearsals and reading stories each and every night.

The first time I meet with a class that I will be teaching, I am acutely aware of first impressions.  I no longer fear them, but I am aware of…