by Admin | Mar 29, 2016 | family, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Memoir, Uncategorized
Reviewer: Janet Levine “The novel is a quick, compulsive read but leaves much untold; however, this is fiction and not comprehensive biography.” Terrible Virtue by Ellen Feldman is fictional autobiography (told almost exclusively in an imagined first-person narrative...
by Admin | Dec 30, 2012 | creativity, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, yoga
Winter Solstice 2012 Breathe, relax, center and smile. Let things come and go, and just let be. It’s not about trying not to think but about letting things come and go. Learning to relax, just be,center, and naturally meditate is a well known spiritual secret...
by Admin | Feb 19, 2011 | college, creativity, Generation E, high school, meditation, Parenting, young adults
Virginia Woolf said famously in 1928 at Girton when addressing a group of those first women to attend Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, the hallowed sanctum of male intellectual and creative life that helped to ensure male hegemony for the eight hundred...
by Admin | May 30, 2010 | Children, fiction, Leela's Gift, meditation
Below you will find a photo of peonies that bloomed in my garden this morning. For some reason this is a once in three years occurrence so I greet each bloom with excitement. They are among the most beautiful peonies I have seen, and the scent is intoxicating. I have...
by Admin | Mar 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
I saw a robin today as I walked across campus, a harbinger of spring to come. In a flower bed in front of my home office window there are a host of white and green snowdrops emerging from under those leaves that were not swept away last fall. My heart leaps at the...