Tender Places

My office is covered, you might even say littered, with papers, books open to post-it marked pages, stacks of folders and jotted ideas pinned to one of three bulletin boards.  My computer screen has 6 windows open as I toggle back…

I discovered the wise and saintly woman, Hildegard of Bingen, by accident while reading about women whom history has labeled “polymaths”–  people with a wide range of interests and curious minds whose skills cross academic and social boundaries. Polymaths’ lives, historically…

The sight below me was amazing.  I was on a stair railing looking down on a factory floor that stretched out for a city block. The city was Edinburgh, Scotland and I was touring the Tartan Weaving Mill.  Below me, dozens…

I brought the dusty box down from the top shelf of my closet.  I packed it years ago when my sister and I closed up our parents’ home for the last time.  We saved, sold, donated, and discarded.  My mother’s assorted…