September 2022: Keeping it Simple

September 2022: Keeping it Simple

September 2022: Keeping It Simple September tends to kick off the busiest time of year— new school year starts up, poetry and art events increase, and in Albuquerque tourists arrive in greater numbers as the weather cools down. In spite of these challenges I’m...
August 2022: Making Adjustments

August 2022: Making Adjustments

August 2022: Making Adjustments Poet T.S. Eliot famously declared that “April is the cruelest month” but July has been pretty difficult for my family with health problems and adjusting to lifestyle changes as a result. While many decisions on how to...
July 2022: Taking Stock

July 2022: Taking Stock

July 2022: Taking Stock  After starting the year with a frenetic pace, I find myself in a mid-year pause. Now, that long-anticipated Attleboro Arts Museum show is over with its cross-country trips and I’ve finished the Tree of Life mural at The Next Best Thing...
June 2022: Back to the Future

June 2022: Back to the Future

June 2022: Back to the Future I’m feeling jet-lagged from a kind of time traveling after returning to Albuquerque from re-visiting Massachusetts, where I spent my formative years as a young adult. The recent news of mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas have also...
May 2022: Wrapping Up

May 2022: Wrapping Up

May 2022: Wrapping Up I’m writing this newsletter in the top floor of my late husband’s mother’s three-decker home, located catty-corner across the street from the the 1860-era house we renovated a lifetime ago in Brockton, Massachusetts, before we...