Tag: reflections
member name: Pina M.
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September 24, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Morning has come to my humble life, and today I find myself wistful and reflective from the events of last week, wishing I could start it all over again, fresh and new. I am thinking about the . . .
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October 20, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
SPENT
I spent the better part of last night contemplating what it was I should write, but I kept coming up empty; my mind drained from a trying workweek that has continued since Saturday, with . . .
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October 21, 2006 10:33 PM EDT --
When I was 18 or 19, I had great plans for my life. I was in college studying abstract painting when this brilliant thought came to my mind one day while I was working in the studio, carefully applying . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:43 PM EST --
PART III
When I first moved back to New York the summer of 1977 and after I had settled into the apartment I shared on 103 street, I was pretty much consumed by two things: finding a job . . .
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October 11, 2006 10:38 PM EDT --
THE DANCER
For Wendy S., on Gather, whose story about a homeless man inspired me to write this.
I was living in Hotel Bretton Hall, an old hotel located on the corners of 86<sup>th</sup> . . .
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October 22, 2006 05:08 PM EDT --
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Before I careened into my marital fantasies, I continued my artistic pursuits, even though some plans I had were discarded in favor of the practicalities . . .
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December 02, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
REQUIEM FOR DINERO BOO, THE FINAL EVENING
PART 1
At night, in the distant past of our lives together
You brought me comfort,
Soothing
My loneliness, the bitterness and . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part II
I am not entirely sure when all of this started. It's kind of like trying to figure out if the . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:34 PM EST --
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE FINE ART OF SAYING "NO"
They say "sorry" is the hardest word for many of us, but for me the word "no" has been my downfall. After . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part 1
When you first look at me, you wouldn't believe or think that I am sick, just as you wouldn't know I am . . .
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December 02, 2006 09:26 AM EST --
By now, you can pretty much surmise how great a mood I am in this morning. It's 7:40 a.m. and I have had maybe 4 hours of sleep, which is not all that unusual when I am under stress. We have . . .
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October 02, 2006 10:10 PM EDT --
Preface:
Those who know me on Gather - or rather, are getting to know me - are aware that I lost my mother 31 years ago to cancer and my father 26 years ago to heart disease. I was 19 and 24 years old . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
WRITTEN MARCH 16TH..AN INNER DIALOGUE DURING A BAD MONTH IN AN ALREADY BAD YEAR
Evening has faded into night now as I sit listening to the tinkling sound of ice falling against my home . . .
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September 17, 2006 01:35 PM EDT --
When I was 15 years old my mother told me that I was what she called "a woman's woman" as opposed to being "a man's woman" like my older sister. I wasn't exactly sure . . .
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May 19, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
When I was quite young it never occurred to me that one day my parents would die. Of course, as I matured and became aware of death once my grandparents died, I knew it would happen at some . . .
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November 25, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Where I am From
I came from love, a second marriage of opposites
A love forged in passion and grace,
Entwined in inner sorrows, revealed when I matured
A gentle, . . .
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December 25, 2006 09:52 PM EST --
Christmas in my home was always weird, or at least that is how I perceived it to be when I was a kid. This isn't to say I didn't have good Christmases, get great presents, eat lovingly prepared . . .
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September 16, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
The door on The Writer's Block page is not just any door. On the surface it may be that for some, but it isn't for me. It is the door to my past, to my beginnings and to my childhood and teenage . . .
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March 23, 2008 01:18 PM EDT --
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
A Karmic Journey
Of late, my life - such as it is now - is one so filled with the twists and turns of life's irony and Karmic energy I . . .
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September 17, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
The summer we sold our house in NYC (1973) my parents shuttled me off to live with my older brother, his wife and baby son on the South Jersey Shore while they stayed in the City and packed. My parents . . .
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