November 2012

We are a culture obsessed with balance. Don’t upset the balance, eat a balanced diet, monitor your credit card balance, balance the books, your fate lies in the balance, engage in a balancing act between this and that – family and career, life and love, work and play, dreams and reality, balance the equation. The prevailing mantra – don’t get off balance! Read More »

In Wuthering Heights country a few weeks ago, I walked miles in the pelting rain, my green wool scarf the color of the verdant fields wound tightly around my neck. I holed up a week in a romantic stone grange listening to the winds howl through the cracks of the recessed windows. I could write the song of those winds now and the stories that they hold. Read More »