Earlier today, I spent some time reorganizing my bookshelves which, on the face of it, probably doesn’t sound terribly significant. Shifting books to and fro is hardly cause for excitement, nor is putting books away in a closet in order to make room for other books. Unless, of course, the books that you’re carefully piling away in storage are your pregnancy books, and you’re...
An aria That causes my heart To explode with wild emotion Capturing my soul And stealing my breath away A beauty That renders me Utterly speechless Filling my eyes with tears And bringing unspeakable pleasure A love That draws me Into places unknown Taking over my body and spirit Completely A longing To touch To feel To kiss To taste For all of my senses Are yours Tweet
I gaze upon the little boy I watch him as he sleeps I think of all the things he knows The knowledge that he reaps I do my best to teach him well To teach him wrong from right I tell him not to judge the others Merely based on sight I tell him everybody’s different But different isn’t bad In fact it’s quite the opposite A reason to be glad To celebrate the differences To...
If you ask what I like, I can tell you with ease That my favorite food is of course Japanese Sushi and tofu – agedashi – that’s right These are the foods I could eat every night And with this disclosure, you surely can guess When it comes to my birthday, the food I request Will always be seaweed with rice and wasabi I admit to addiction – it’s not just a hobby With blessed...
Words that haunt And make you wonder If what you’ve done is right Taunting, teasing, tearing Words that shine Touching you everywhere Make you smile from within And bring you joy Words that wound Pieces of your soul Dropping into your heart Rock-hard and heavy Words that lift Your spirits high Allowing you to soar And setting you free Words said in anger Cannot be taken back...
I think I may have cut my editor off mid-sentence when she asked if I’d be interested in doing a story about the Recanati Winery, for obviously, there was no question in my mind that this was a story I wanted to do. I was given a private tour of the winery by charming head winemaker, Gil Shatsberg, and then had the opportunity to chat with him and winery CEO Noam Jacoby...
Wish I could take the pain away Yours and mine – just cast it astray Bury the sorrow in holes so deep Just take the sadness and put it to sleep Wish I could bottle elation and bliss Then pass it around at times such as this Let us get drunk on joy and delight Forget all our troubles and laugh through the night Wish I could reach out and touch the sky, then borrow a star or two...
The boy who would be twelve today – he’s lost inside my dreams He weaves his way around my thoughts on unrelated themes He hides among the shadows – they dance around my mind Slipping in and out, simply to remind… The boy who would be twelve today – he lives inside my soul He plays with my emotions; he dares me to be whole He’s always in there somewhere, tiptoeing about I wish...
Didn’t ask for this to happen; never wanted it to be There’s nothing brave about it; no courage to be me It’s not a path I chose – Just do my best to cope So please don’t say I’m brave; that my courage gives you hope I do the best I can, to keep the lock on tight But as the dates approach, I start to lose the fight Long ago, I built a wall, trying to contain The feelings I...
Sometimes, life isn’t so great. You get bogged down in the negatives and lose sight of the good stuff – the stuff that makes you smile. And, while I’m not trying to minimize the negatives (and these days, there are more than a few, what with a friend being very sick, political and environmental disasters that are seemingly at every turn, a difficult job market, etc.), perhaps...