by Nancy Colasurdo | Apr 15, 2012 | Unfettered 50
You know, when I set out to write about what it’s like to be in my 50s just a few short months ago, I was envisioning something like this — adventure, culture, more adventure, more culture. Trips to chronicle. Events to dissect for their deeper meaning. I...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Apr 10, 2012 | Unfettered 50
The word ‘humble’ keeps coming up in my Morning Pages. Sometimes it feels virtuous. Other times it pisses me off because I feel it’s born of having events forced upon me that show me I’m not in control. As in, I am so humbled by my knee injury...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Apr 5, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Kevin has been gone for more than a month and I’m still not ready to use past tense. I know what will happen. A month, two months, three and before I know it … a year. Maybe then I can say, “He loved to talk about spirituality.” But right now,...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Mar 31, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Back in my college days when I was discovering non-traditional viewpoints on so many levels, I was transfixed by a poem by Marge Piercy. Up until that point, my exposure to poetry and my love for it had been limited to verse that was melodic or nature-based or...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Mar 27, 2012 | Unfettered 50
I suppose today I needed to be in control of something. And that’s why my closet is suddenly pin straight and I scheduled arthroscopic surgery for my knee on April 18. Because God knows I’m not in control over the big stuff. You know, death. My Aunt Laura...
by Nancy Colasurdo | Mar 24, 2012 | Unfettered 50
Walk the Line is one of those movies I can’t go past when channel surfing. Not really a fan of Johnny Cash’s music, I figure it’s because the relationship –really, courtship — between Cash and June Carter was a non-linear, non-traditional...
