The Kaleidoscope
The kaleidoscope zooms in on a bright summer day with a counterclockwise turn of the dial, capturing in its light a multiplicity of stories and personalities. The kaleidoscope of people and colors...
View ArticleRestless Impatience
There is a restless impatience in the air, a twitchy and fidgety unsettledness as if the cosmic soul knows that is about to undergo a massive transformation. The Earth is raiding grandma’s antique...
View ArticleInternational Day of the Girl
I was a shy and timid girl, afraid of many things – new people, new places, disappointment. But despite my relative shyness, I had a happy childhood and I never doubted the fact that I was loved and...
View ArticleCut Open and Falling Down
Every few months, I pack the boys into the minivan and we make the trek from the suburbs into the city to visit my husband at his office. The boys love these little adventures. They watch movies in the...
View ArticleWatching
We’re all just walking each other home. - Ram Das Watching…waiting…wondering… with when’s and why’s and how’s that are met with heart-breaking silence or intolerable and offense retorts. Expectations...
View ArticleWait For Me
“Wait for me,” he called to her when they were children trudging through freshly fallen snow. She didn’t wait. But eventually he caught up. And they built elegant snow angels and elaborate fortresses...
View ArticleThe Confident Lion
The lion has always seemed like the most confident animal in the zoo to me. He stands there all majestic and regal-looking, smugly bearing his royal title. He eats when he wants, he sleeps as much as...
View ArticleOne Breath A Minute
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The piles are everywhere. Wet, sloppy snow is piled up outside my windows. Remnants of warmer days – patio furniture,...
View ArticleOn Closer Inspection
One of the only two plants that are still alive in our house is a tiny little cactus. At first glance, it seems like any ordinary cactus – spindly, thorny, and hazardous, albeit small. But on closer...
View ArticleUnderwater and Drowning
I’m over at my friend Angie’s site today talking about waves and drowning and floating. Those of you who read this blog regularly will know Angie from our semi-weekly Photo Inspiration Challenge, in...
View ArticleShadows
[Author’s Note: Most of my writing comes in the form of nonfiction, but in January I posted my first piece of fiction. This post might be a continuation of that piece. Or maybe not. You be the judge.]...
View ArticleOn Wishing Time Away
Yesterday morning I sat outside on our back deck, coffee in one hand, pen in the other. Since it was Sunday, I had turned off my computer, cell phone, television, and quieted some of the external...
View ArticleAn Outstretched Hand
We stood by the side of the road, my younger son and I. Cars raced past and we waited, his little hand clenched in mine. As soon as the traffic paused in one direction, cars raced toward us from the...
View ArticleWhy I Am Smashing Windows
I have gone around and around for the past few days about how to start this post, and I have tried several intro paragraphs on for size, but none of them seem to do the topic justice so I’m just going...
View ArticleWhat Bowling Taught Me About Patience
Last Sunday, on a cold Chicago afternoon, after being cooped up for most of the week, my husband and I looked at each other and said, “Let’s go bowling.” Now, nothing says wholesome family fun quite...
View ArticleBig and Bold, soft and quiet
A few weeks ago, I got together with a couple of girlfriends for a weekend of relaxation, creativity, and friendship. After the typical chit-chat and talk about work and children and families, the...
View ArticleI Believe in Pink
“I believe in pink.” ― Audrey Hepburn I, too, believe in pink. I also believe in the long, warm days of summer. I believe in children with grass-stained knees and dirty fingernails and twinkly-eyed...
View ArticleA Big and Wide Perspective
I have been doing this Photo Inspiration Challenge with Angie McMonigal Photography for more than two years now, and if there is one thing that our collaboration has reinforced week after week (aside...
View ArticleHow to Do Just About Anything
“How to write: Butt in chair. Start each day anywhere. Let yourself do it badly. Just take one passage at a time. Get butt... The post How to Do Just About Anything appeared first on Christine Organ.
View ArticleSticky Taffy
Though the weather here in the Midwest indicates otherwise, we are firmly entrenched in Spring. It is now mid-May. Or maybe even late-May depending... The post Sticky Taffy appeared first on Christine...
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