Today would have been my forty-first wedding anniversary. What is extraordinary is that I realized it’s the first time in a long while I haven’t associated the date with sadness, anger…grief. Even when I was still married, today was a reminder of how far we had slipped, how dark the future. How I didn’t think… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Claire
I Just Don’t Even Know
Some days are like that, and today is one of them; I just don’t even know. Hell, I don’t even know what it is I don’t even know. So I thank All The Powers That Be for the gym and the road. Isak Dineson said “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears… Continue Reading
The Box Clearly Said “Hummingbird Feeder”
I thought I was putting up a hummingbird feeder but apparently I grabbed the one for Bullock’s Orioles. My photos don’t do the bird justice so here is a link that does. http://greglasley.com/bullocksoriole.html Continue Reading
The In-between-Season
The snow tires are off and the Sandhill cranes have returned but I don’t yet dare to wash and put away my winter coat. It’s that weird in-between-season: too warm for flannel sheets and too chilly for regular ones. Ah, spring in the Rockies! Continue Reading
To Slow Down is to Catch Up
Paradox Have you ever noticed how often this happens? I’m not saying you don’t have to do your work, but have you noticed that when you stop pushing so. darn. hard. what you need becomes available? Maybe you have done what you were supposed to do: you followed the formula, your timeline and bullet… Continue Reading
How Do You Know When It’s Time To Leap?
Big Changes, Big Choices I am closer to the edge but still fidgeting, walking up and peering over, backing up, afraid to make the leap. What began five years ago as a vague notion has coalesced into a plan. The edges are still a little blurry but the core is solid. And true to form,… Continue Reading
Heavy lifting
Today’s workout is dedicated to Marcus, who taught me lifting things. Continue Reading
Intentions of a Late Winter Solstice 2017
Sometimes work gets in the way Winter Solstice has come and gone, not un-noticed and not without the setting of intentions, but all un-written until now. And as we all know, thoughts don’t become real until we get them out of our head and onto paper. Writing My book is written and I have the… Continue Reading
Half a World Away is Right Down the Road
Out of the comfort zone The clinic I worked at yesterday is twenty miles and half a world away from my home. Thirty years ago there was a Catholic hospital downtown, and when I worked there we saw most of the recent immigrants to the city. I expected this shift would feel like my old… Continue Reading
