Picking up my phone in mid-March was like opening the door to machine gun fire, but instead of bullets, a shower of paintball pellets awaited. They weren’t violent enough to injure me, but disturbing enough to shove me off kilter and tighten my chest so much I wondered if I’d contracted the darned virus. …. […]
Call me a Grinch, maybe the Grinch. I proudly display the Twelve Terrors of Christmas, by John Updike, on an end table each holiday season, and I loved John Grisham’s book, “Skipping Christmas”. I take David Sedaris seriously with his title Holidays on Ice, and think any kind of stiff drink splashed over one of […]
Music and Lyrics by Susan Reslewic Keatley The inspiration for this song was children separated from each other due to COVID. While thathas largely passed, there are many children, many friends, separated from each other, due to waror scuffles over family politics or a million other reasons. This song is about the hope that oneday […]
Dear Sir (or Madam), I’m struck by the utter lack of decorum in this forum. Last week Mr. Smith called Mrs. Tracey a pig,And in a letter before that, she likened him to a Whig. Her reference was obscure, though meant to be monstrous.Aren’t these letters supposed to be anonymous? The printed word is sacred, […]
Paul McCartney wrote the lyrics of “Eleanor Rigby” in 1966.With its refrain about all the lonely people, the song went on to become one of the Beatles’greatest hits. According to McCartney, “Eleanor Rigby” is an ode to the old ladies he met doingodd jobs as a teenager in post-war Britain. While I always loved the […]
This draft became a published essay! 11 months into the realized US pandemic, the kids and Eric and I went maple sugaring. Mydream activity. I remember doing it as a little kid. The disappointing taste of the watery sap andthe promise of the thick gooey syrup that would result later, a sweet tooth’s preferred alchemy.We […]
