Saturday night I woke up convinced that I had made a huge mistake and that I should not go to Cork. I have never left my family for this long. I have never left my home for this long. I am seriously afraid that I will miss them and even the little minutia of my […]
At least a decade ago, I “borrowed” this exercise from my lovely friend and co-editor of PBQ, Marion Wrenn. I’d like you to take 15 to 20 minutes to do a freewriting about your name. (A freewriting means that you allow yourself to write without self editing.) When I say “about your name” I can […]
Waiting for the Bolt Bus on my way to NY last week I started chatting with the woman next to me in line. It turned out that she was a Philosophy professor and Villanova and was headed to NY to see her daughter, and then the two of them were going to Europe for a […]
Yesterday morning on the PATCO into Philadelphia, a man stood up in the aisle behind me and introduced himself. He said he was running for something as an Independent, and he needed our signatures to “make change happen.” By now, he was walking up and down the aisle and repeating himself: “I’m an electrician, not a […]
I am as wonderfully exhausted as I should be. The long awaited marriage of Bryan Dickey and Nicole Mysanlich is complete, and was completely wonderful. The weekend was everything I hoped for insofar as being restful and a lovely time with my kids and Mike and Pap and Maureen. The cabin was more beautiful than […]