Talking about your dreams can be both a great way to get support and a great way to get your every hope dashed – depending on who you talk to. You start with those people you know will support your seemingly crazy ideas. Then, when you’re bolstered with enough confidence, you mention it to those…
Category: Travels
On My Way!
I had a purely joyful day cleaning out a closet yesterday. I know this is not normal. But neither am I. As many of you know, I love to declutter. What do I love more than decluttering my own life? Helping other people declutter theirs. But yesterday it was on my home turf. It all…
Rat Rescue
“Are those ferrets?” the guy two seats down from me asked. Between us a girl had just sat down and placed an animal carrying case on her lap. She opened it up, took one of the two critters out, cuddled and kissed him. Ferrets? I knew better. Yes, their little black faces were cute. But…
On Living Vicariously
“I mean, don’t get me wrong,” she said. “I love my kids.” Then she lowered her voice: “But if I had to do it all over again…” She stopped and looked at me – frowning, her slightly parted lips showing her clenched teeth. I knew what she was saying. I had just told a group…
The Wood Talks – If You’re Listening
My friend and I followed the signs down the driveway to what must have been a former coach house. As directed by the sign on the door, we carefully opened it so as not to let the cat out. We went up the stairs gingerly and were greeted at the top by a beautiful whitewashed…
Myths of the Sisterhood (Part 2)
I described the house where I was saying to my sister Liz. “It’s right on the ocean – on a bluff. There’s stairs down to the beach. Actually, it used to be an old inn and the brochure aid ‘seven steps to the sea.’” I had been to this house many times in the last…
Myths of the Sisterhood (Part 1)
It was two years ago that I did my first stint as sous-chef at Villa Marguerita – the vacation home on the Rhode Island coast belonging to the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame. They work hard in their various ministries – at schools, hospitals, and other non-profits – and then come here for…
On Invitations and Planning
On Friday, a woman was described to me this way: “She was the kind of person who never turned down an invitation. She said if she did, they might stop asking.” I’ve seen that from both sides. I’ve stopped asking people that continually turn me down. I’ve also been the one to repeatedly turn down…
We made the paper:)
There were a photographer and reporter visiting Sisters Hill Farm the same week I was there. Here’s the article as it appears this week in the Catholic New York. And yes, that’s me in the picture.
Geometry and Lettuce
“Don’t you teach math?” Ashley asked. “Yes – but that’s just book smarts. Completely useless in real life,” I said, frustrated at how difficult I was finding it to plant lettuce in a straight line. “It’s Geometry – they do lines in Geometry,” Ashley offered. “Yeah, but my students don’t even have to draw straight…
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