I got to feel that magic of the first snow of the season this morning! Lovely and harmless. As long as it doesn't keep me from going up to see my third child in Massachusetts. Her name is Eryn, and she's a friend of my daughter's that I grew especially close to during the trials of lockdown. She lived at my house for nearly a year and she became a beloved member of our tiny pandemic pod.

Eryn and Savannah are creating a tarot deck together these days. To see more about that, please visit Savannah's website: yewandeye.com

Do you actively plan for how you want to approach your waning years? Can we do that in the same way that we set up goals for other future events? I am surrounded by octogenarians these days and it makes me think about what I will be like in another 25 years, assuming that I make it that long. So here's an episode about the future rather than the past...

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You know that "life imitates art" business people are always talking about? Well, I have often found that events in my personal life are amplified by whatever bit of Shakespeare's texts I might be working on at the time. It's spooky. Really. And so it was that Cleopatra came into my life just when I needed her most (like that cheesy song, yes...)

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What is your biggest secret from your life? Have you ever told anyone? Did it help? I am telling you my biggest secret right here. It's a relief. Still waiting for the fallout... we'll see...

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In the summer after her junior year of college, my mom decided that she wanted to see the country by taking a cross-country road trip... on a Vespa! In 1959, girls didn't do such things. It was an Odyssean voyage of perils and triumphs, and she told me this tale over a cup of coffee in her quiet suburban kitchen more than 60 years later. Yes, I had heard a small snippet of this story, but never the complete adventure. I was glad I asked.

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We start wrapping things up for the end of the year, and I don't mean presents. Gardens. Social calendars. Things happen in a similar way on the grand scale in terms of a life. I have been watching my mom and her siblings these past few days and have learned much about how our days decline. It's sobering. Some of life's lessons are harder than others.

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There is much that is problematic about the story that surrounds this holiday of Thanksgiving. I take a few moments to discuss that and explore how we might reframe it. But then I'll leave you with a satisfying assortment of things for which I am most grateful, including, of course, all of YOU! Blessings and gratitude!

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In which I compare inmates, Hamlet and next-door neighbors. 😳 It made sense in my head. 

Find out more about Shakespeare Behind Bars HERE.

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Sometimes we are unaware of the foundations upon which we build. Both the physical structures - like my mom's house built on a cement slab which makes the whole downstairs freezing - and the philosophical foundations, like our beliefs and processes. My relationship foundations were rotten. I just didn't know it at the time. I've had more time to think now.

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Opening night of Romeo & Juliet finally came after so much anticipation of all kinds. My love affair was existing on waves of anticipation too. Pain and pleasure in such close proximity. Life imitates art.

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