by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 19, 2012 | Unfettered 50
A few days ago I wrote a blog post called Foggy to Clear that expressed some relief about turning a physical and emotional corner in the challenge that has been 2012. That night I realized that my work obligations had been met and that I could award myself a 24-hour...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 17, 2012 | Unfettered 50
When I woke up this morning, I knew this: I was suffering some kind of setback with my knee and I was afraid to find out what the orthopedist would say when I visited him at 4 p.m. About three weeks ago, feeling on a healing upswing, I disembarked from a very late...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jul 10, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Last summer at this time I was studying Dante’s Inferno at NYU. Each week I was more and more fascinated with Dante’s detailed take on death and where we go when we leave this life. This year so much has changed, not only because of deaths I’ve...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 29, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Desperately in need of a conversation. Not just any conversation. One about how I’m feeling. Why I’m feeling it. Inexplicable. But not really. But who? Who to put in the position of trying to understand what I’m rambling about in my mind? Journaling...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 27, 2012 | Unfettered 50
I was journaling and having a cup of coffee outside a cafe on this glorious day in Hoboken when a former client and fellow artist happened by. We began talking and I invited her to sit. And I am so happy that I did. We had a frank discussion on death and depression...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Jun 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
On many a day I give thanks for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, but every so often it speaks to me in an extra special way. This poem for me evokes the way I feel when I am sitting at the Hudson River waterfront, not among trees, but in a...
