A few times a year I share a poem, instead of a column. Celebrate the loveliness of the holidays in the ways you love the best! Barter By Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell,      All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff,      Soaring fire that

I’ve been visiting my dad and stepmother.  My English-speaking dad is hard of hearing and although my stepmother speaks English, she’s originally from El Salvador and her native tongue is Spanish.  To top it off, although my dad has a hearing aid, he doesn’t like wearing it.   In this household, many things

In honor of Valentine’s Day, a love poem to consider (and enjoy) from the great Sufi poet Hafiz… I Know The Way You Can Get I know the way you can get when you have not had a drink of Love: Your face hardens, your sweet muscles cramp. Children become concerned about a

After a meeting with an editorial board of the local newspaper, I was walking to the door with the interviewer. We’d been talking about the general tone of divisiveness in our society today. What was the cure? The man, not exactly a hard-bitten reporter, (but someone who you assume is trained to be