Share the Wealth with Dianne Lee: A Sanctuary
“I associate the garden with the whole experience of being alive, and so, there is nothing in the range of human experience that is separate from what the garden can signify in its eagerness and…
Category: Friends
Make Lists Not War
Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War eight…
Share the Wealth with Cami Kasmerchak: I Know Some of the Best People
And I want to tell you about them. There’s Buffalo Meg who is from Buffalo, New York and has a pitch to convince anyone she meets to move there. There’s Hannah Frank who is addicted…
A Friend Sent Me This Poem (We Inter-Are)
March 14 by Katie Murphy It’s Amazing, Isn’t It? I can be, at one moment, sitting at my table in the morning, Annoyed at my boss for being an incomprehensible moron, Pissed off at a…
How To Live in Many Times at Once
Over the years, I have been the blessed recipient of many poems by Katie Murphy, whose birthday it is today. I invite lovers of poetry to purchase her e-book, How to Live in Many Times…
From Ellen Rehg on Facebook
I’ve had a year like no other. So much happened, but what stands out is all the love. I can’t be grateful enough for family and friends who did so much for me. My Mom…
“So Don’t Flip”*
When it comes to righteous indignation She makes Arundhati Roy seem timid At a public reading of The Book of Mev I made sure she read last reading aloud the last chapter To mark the…
Share the Wealth with Jen Bello-Kottenstette: A Journey to Work Life Balance
I will be sharing my journey to maintain the coveted “work life balance” in my position as a family medicine physician and researcher. Making choices about achieving professional success involves a continuous series of tradeoffs…
Share the Wealth with Marty and Jerry King: When a House becomes a Home
We began our journey of serving the homeless almost 40 years ago by volunteering to provide meals and serve in other ways at Karen House, the Catholic Worker shelter for women. The journey continued when…