(Please, please, please, Facebook readers, click here: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) There are Internet “plagues” that put Egypt’s seven afflictions to shame. The latest of these is Facebook’s “25 random facts about me.” The point is simple: you list 25 facts about yourself, post them, then ask several of your friends to do the same. As I’ve read […]
(If you’re reading on Facebook, click this link to be redirected to the site where the layout and pics will be as they should be: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) The choir room was buoyant with the usual pre-class maelstrom of activity. I was singlehandedly rolling the grand piano into position (far be it from any BOYS in the […]
Kandern has been encased in thick fog for several days. (These first two photos courtesy of Sandee Shuman. She’s a great photog!) It’s not the wispy, whimsical fog that makes you want to whisper as you walk through cloud-feathered hills. It’s a shroud–the kind of opaque whiteness that makes a person feel so heavily […]
(Facebook readers, please click here to be redirected to the actual site: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Four weeks ago yesterday, I had a meltdown. Oh, you might presume I’m exaggerating. Michele Phoenix, the fearless Miss Phiphi, the courageous cancer-overcomer, wouldn’t have a full-blown, twelve-Kleenex-alert emotional Tchernobyl…would she? She’s too tough. Too pragmatic. Too… Human. That’s what I am. […]
(Reading on Facebook? Oh, PLEASE do click on the following link before reading on. The pictures simply must be seen in their original context! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I know I should be getting ready for a big evening out–doing my hair, painting my nails, pulling out my party dress (which, in my case, is a dress […]
(If you’re reading on Facebook, please click here before going on…it’s much prettier and the pictures look better! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I caught myself listening to melancholic Christmas music yesterday. With so many bright and cheerful CDs in my possession, I wondered what it is that occasionally draws me to that one track that’s either subdued or […]
If you live in a remote village of Africa, the sound might have been a bit muted. But if you live anywhere within a 1,000 mile radius around Basel, Switzerland, you most certainly heard the over-the-top celebrating that happened at about 11:30 on Wednesday morning. I had entered the “klinik” 20 minutes earlier for my […]
WARNING: If you were ever in my Creative Writing class, please don’t read on. You may suffer irrevocable literary damage, and I wouldn’t want to be blamed for sabotage-by-puny-poetry! NOTE: Given the topic of this entry, I’m sure you’ll understand that I’ve provided no illustrations…DISCLAIMER: The cartoon at the end of this entry might be […]
(Facebook readers, please click here to be redirected: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine.) And here I was wanting to write a terrifically positive post in which I’d bypass the usual topics (tumors, radiation, barbaric medical procedures!) and focus instead on my mom’s recent visit and last night’s Christmas banquet. But I received an email yesterday from a person I […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please don’t… The captions and text all get unformatted and you’ll end up terribly confused. Click here instead to be redirected: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Here’s the problem with snow: I’m supposed to like it. I mean, everybody does, right? I’m supposed to get excited and talk about making snowmen and snow angels and throwing […]