All posts tagged time

Six Months

I’ve been thinking frequently about TIME these days, feeling like I never have enough. Ideas, plans and intentions zing around my head, trying to settle into order and manageability while more and more events get added to my day, my weekend and future months. Last night, in the midst of a wee panic, tinged with [...]

Autumnal Time

It’s a gorgeous day, today. Crisp, clean air bursts with potential. Brisk winds eradicate particles of discontent. The scent of freshly baked apples and pumpkin spices and flaming fireplaces seems to be waiting just around the corner of some newly naked tree. I want to breathe deeply and rejoice. And yet… I feel old and [...]

Moments

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about time, and the fleeting moments that mark its passage. I’ve been identifying the characteristics that tend to inhabit my favorite moments, the ones to which I hold on and retrieve from memory when I need a boost. Frequently, I’ve discovered, they seem to occur around a coffee cup. [...]

The Summer That Was

I’m not sure how it came to be October; I certainly had no hand in it. I’m sitting in a cafe, guzzling an iced tea, sweating in my shorts and tank top, so my environment is clearly not helping my brain adjust to the reality that summer is over and the world has entered into [...]

The Girl with the Yellow Suitcase

It’s been 10 months, today, since Jamie died and I still feel every facet of the grief like a cloak that, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to shed. I was leaving a comment on someone’s blog yesterday and became curious to know more about some of the other commentors with [...]