All articles filed in Reflection

Four houses were destroyed.  Several families barely escaped with the clothes on their backs. The Monday night / Tuesday morning fire that tore through a block of houses on Madison Avenue was scary, it was frightening, it was devastating. Now it’s time for us – as a community and as good people – to help…

I have a theory.  Okay, it’s more like a hypothesis, but I’m calling it a theory. When we encounter stress in our lives, we take that stress and use it as fuel to create something tangible.  One of my friends, when she gets angry or frustrated, she cleans her house.  Place looks museum-spotless every time…

Last October, I journeyed to the Boreas Ponds, the newly-opened parcel in the Adirondack Mountains.  It was an emotional adventure for me, as it involved a five-mile hike to and from the Ponds itself. I promised myself I would return some day and take more pictures at that peaceful, serene location. Then life interfered.  A…

Teri Conroy is a very good friend of mine, we met as bloggers on the old Times Union blog portal.  She operates Wunsapana Farm, a “peaceable kingdom” farm with over a dozen llamas and other agrarian creatures, and the fiber sheared from those llamas exists as high-quality fabric sold around the world.  She’s always let…

The horrible, brutal moment took place 47 years ago today.  February 20, 1970. Even today, it still causes long-suppressed emotions to rise to my heart and to my mind and to my soul.  Sadness.  Rage.  Anger.  Regret.  Shame.  Resolve. On February 20, 1970,  my grandfather had my three younger siblings in his car and was…

Trying to stay motivated while you’re waiting for surgery is brutal.  But I have to persevere.  There’s no other way around it. Get up in the morning.  Write a blog post.  Then go on with my day. And it’s tough.  I know that there’s so many issues ahead that I must counter. But I have…