I’ll take your part When darkness comes And pain is all around Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down Like a bridge over troubled water I […]
Happy Birthday Dad
Today would have been my father’s 89th birthday. It doesn’t matter how many years pass, I miss him almost daily. As it happens, this morning finds me in Laguna Niguel, […]
First Woman to Sleep on Mt. Shasta
For those who don’t know, my mother died this past May. Among other things, I inherited her writing–my mother was a beautiful writer. What my mother was not, is organized. […]
Veterans Day: My Mother the WASP
In December of 1943 my mother, who then went by, Elinor Fairchild, received a letter from Jaqueline Cochran, Director of Women Pilots of The War Department, letting her know that […]
Sunrise, Music and the Day Ahead
Watching the sun, Watching it come Watching it come up, Over the rooftops… Cloudy and warm, Maybe a storm You can never quite tell, From the morning… And it’s going […]
Fall Day
The great lesson…is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life. In one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.–Abraham […]
Garden Refuge
There are images I lean on as if they were a cane when life and schedules seek to untether me from the essence of who I am. In those moments, […]
