“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Orson Welles As Orson Welles said, happy endings depend on where we choose to stop the story. But they also depend on the story that we choose to tell. Because isn’t all of life,…
This time of year there are lots of words said about moms. There are flowery and funny and touching cards to moms. There are blogs about what it means to be a mom, essays about why we love being a mom, and passive-aggressive rants about how hard it is to…
“Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t drive a car, I don’t f***ing ride in a car, I don’t handle money, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don’t f***ing roll!” – Walter Sobchak (John Goodman)…
“Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea.” – Max Lucado Lately I have been feeling the full weight of the all the world’s beauty and cruelty, destruction and rebirth, joy and agony and I think my might heart might burst from the weight of…
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Twenty-six years ago, my grandpa was in an airplane crash. Of the 16 passengers and three crew members, 9 people died. Fourteen more people were…
This morning when my husband opened the door to catch the commuter train downtown, he found the most wonderful thing waiting on our doorstep – our first produce box of the season! This is the second year that we have participated in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and each…