by Sue Staropoli, August, 2021 Throughout my life I have had many ways of seeing myself. Exceptional student. Wife, mother, activist....

by Sue Staropoli, May, 2021 Now and then it is valuable to stop, reflect, and celebrate what we have accomplished in our work. This is...

by Sue Staropoli, May 2021 For many years I have been practicing metta, or loving kindness, meditation, sending positive energy and...

~Priscilla Auchincloss, May 2021 1. Dreams. The seed of this essay begins a few months ago, in the winter. I’m trying to figure out my...

~Chante Ishta I’m looking out on a blustery March day, waiting for words to flow. I watch the supple cedar branches bowing to the north...

~Joyce Herman, March 2021 A year into the pandemic, now vaccinated, I contemplate stepping back into the world beyond my home, into the...