My guess is that if you are reading this, you’ve probably seen the YouTube video I made a couple of…
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Good-byes
The house is so quiet. I had planned to spend the afternoon putting Christmas decorations away, vacuuming the dog hair…
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Thanksgiving
“Thanksgiving is really over,” my friend Patti wrote yesterday. “All that’s left are yams.” I know what she means. In…
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Adulthood for Amateurs
Five years ago today, my husband and I signed the papers on the property that we now call home. I…
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Monks and memories
A month after the September 11 terrorist attacks, I drove from our house in Massachusetts up to New Hampshire to…
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Bookstores and hydrangeas
It seemed fitting that my first reading for The Gift of an Ordinary Day take place in our old hometown…
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