Second Childhood

April 17, 2022

Easter Sunday. The notion of rebirth swirls in my mind. I take delight in the gentle blossoms of perennials shooting out of the grounds, after what feels like a particularly long and punishing winter of Covid’s third year…

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60 Things I Know to Be True

March 26, 2022

Recently, I turned 60, which is called kanreki in Japan and is kind of a big deal. I want to write about that, and about so much more that’s been percolating during these past two pandemic years. I…

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A Slow Hello to 2019

January 8, 2019

Happy New Year! It has been too embarrassing a lapse since my last post. But as our teenage daughter has been prone to saying (ironically, of course) this past week: “New Year, new me!” I am gliding into…

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The House that Contained Multitudes

January 24, 2018

I still remember that summer day in 2002. I was 40 and pregnant with our first child. We had seen more than 200 houses at that point, when Ivar called me and said, “honey, I think I found…

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The Year of Living Fiercely

November 2, 2017

I had been merrily going about my life this year – as merrily as one can, given political and natural calamities – doing things like getting my hips replaced, starting a blog, becoming an American citizen, facilitating difficult…

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