friendship
January 17, 2009
- Tomorrow, two of my former poetry students will visit Knoxville, and we'll have brunch. Kristi Maxwell is driving in from Cincinnati, where she's getting her Ph.D. in creative writing. Ashley Van Doorn will be driving in from Atlanta, where she's working in a bookstore. She worked on her M.F.A. at the University of Oregon. Both Kristi and Ashley took my "Dreamworks" class about ...
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January 7, 2009
- I have moved a lot around the world with my ex-husband. Every time we have moved to another country we had only the work, but we had to make new friends, find our ways around in a new city, in a new language. The friends, which we were leaving behind by every new move, were telling us that we are lucky to have such colorful life, that they envy us. Nobody wanted to listen to me complaining ...
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December 31, 2008
- The film titled "Without Words" is Brian Deane's first film but that didn't stop him from grappling with a very tough subject. This Irish filmmaker won the Social/Environment award in the 2008 Babelgum Online Film Festival! The film's subject is rarely talked about even in the privacy of our own homes. It's a problem difficult to discuss, sad and unfortunately there ...
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December 22, 2008
- Namaste Today is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. In Sanskrit, the language of yoga, the word namaste means “the light in me, honors the light in you.” This year, the world lost one our brightest lights. Her name is Katie. Katie and I met in a yoga class near the summer solstice eighteen months ago. I was teaching. The theme of my class that day was ...
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December 20, 2008
- It´s late Saturday afternoon here in this corner of the world, and earlier today my husband and I were wondering what movie we could watch with the kids, that would make us think of Christmas-related issues. That´s when my husband suggested E.T. I confess I tilted my head to the right, like my dog Xodo used to do, and looked sort of puzzled. Then he said - you know, unconditional love, ...
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December 19, 2008
- Friday, December 19, 2008No longer alone! Sometimes we find ourselves alone, wishing for friends.Then we gather together, finding solace in friendship,security in numbers, soulmates in others.Posted by Jean M Fogle at 6:46 AM 0 comments Labels: bird photography, birds of a feather, freelance writer and photographer, life in the freelance lane, Shutter Sisters
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December 16, 2008
- Number 10: You can buy 2005 Bordeaux at the supermarket in Valence d'Angens for about 4 Euros. Some of these wines you will not find in the United States. They are the color of rubies in a sunset, and they taste even better than their gleam.Number 9: The cheese dealer in the open market at Valence looks like Antonio Banderas, and he likes American women. Number 8: The villagers are so ...
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December 2, 2008
- In late spring, I move out of Maureen and J.B.'s house. I find a studio apartment on the second floor of a house on Fourth Street. My floor of the building is nestled in the branches of two oak trees. The large casement windows open out, and it's as if the leaves breathe gold-green light into the three spaces of the studio: kitchen, living room, bedroom. There is a yard for ...
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November 25, 2008
- GratitudeMy former beau didn’t arrive for Sunday supper until other guests were saying good night, but, like acknowledgments made at school reunions for the one traveling furthest, he was flying in from New York, so was excused. I was a bit nervous over the prospect of seeing him after ten years, and therefore relieved his plane was late, our reunion would be private. Kathleen, jewelry ...
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September 29, 2008
- Tomorrow marks the beginning of a semi-annual festival celebrating female divinity. Nava means nine and Ratri means nights. During these nine nights and ten days, women visit one another in their homes, decorated with lights and Golu displays of dolls. In my novel, Shiva's Arms, I use this celebration of female friendship as a way to get my warring women to come together. "It was late when ...
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