Coaching cheer

I’m looking at a glass vase with fresh flowers. I don’t know much about flowers so I’m not sure what kind they are, but they’re a gorgeous turquoise and purple combination. In fact, they’re the flowers I eye up in the store and never...

Words about work

I picked up a postcard from a Manhattan restaurant the other day. It’s one in a series with quotes about the meaning and value of work. Here’s what it says:It keeps me in touch,this job of mine,to dreams and plans,and the future.I couldn’t have said...

Young writer

I keep thinking about a conversation I had with my sister’s friend on Saturday. She was telling me how her son, who just made his Holy Communion, loves to write. He so loves it that one recent morning when his mother told him it was raining outside and that...

New stuff

Met my sister and a dear friend for a full day of shopping in Manhattan. It was fabulous. The bustle. The ooh-ing and ah-ing over all the brilliant colors and embellished styles we saw. They were weighed down with shopping bags by the time they boarded a train headed...