A Summer From Long Ago
In the middle of a June day, as I hang one of Elizabeth’s dresses to dry in the sun, I hear the sound of the cicada reassuring me it’s...
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 212 min read
Strangers on a Screen
It was that summer night. The moon was full, and the sounds of the night were brilliantly orchestrated by the cicadas and the tree frogs....
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 62 min read
Summer
Currently, I am in search of summer. Sometimes I find it in the garage where the June bugs gather at night and where my bees look for a...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 292 min read
This is 70
June 29, 1954…wow!…It is morning and the sun shines on another day. Here we go again…walking into the day with risks of glitches and...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 212 min read
A Simple Place
I am painstakingly proof reading all of my past Berry Tales, correcting comma splices and spelling errors...oh my, it is daunting and...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 172 min read
Mothers in 1958
I am very busy correcting the grammar mistakes in my Berry Tale books...a very humbling job because there are many mistakes! I tend to...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 163 min read
The Base
May 2012 a selection from Berry Tales I walked around in the empty, timeworn but treasured Special Education Building at the “base”...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 121 min read
A Book
So…this happened. After many years, I have completed this story, this story from a memory, a memory so fragrant, I never wanted to lose....
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Pamela Shensky
May 232 min read
A Dream
This morning, I woke with a start…I was somewhere else, in a small house with a front porch, screened-in, and on a quiet street in a...
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Pamela Shensky
May 181 min read
May Flowers
I do not have a favorite color, a favorite season, or a favorite food. I also do not have a favorite flower. But, if I had no...
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Pamela Shensky
May 103 min read
My Grandmother's House
I was making my bed yesterday morning and something jolted me, something textural or visual brought me back to the bedroom in my...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 261 min read
Pink Roses and a Swing
My husband snapped this picture early this morning while leaving the house. I suppose he did it for me, to reassure me of something I do...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 221 min read
Earth Day
Back home…back to my garden and my little group of small animals. The first day back was lonely, lonely for the little hands I held and...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 161 min read
Planting a Seed
I feel as though I celebrated spring in a way I can feel gratified. I recently planted the small saplings I had keep alive all winter. I...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 131 min read
Mixed Feelings
Saturday…a day to be free, a day to enjoy. For some reason, I think of my Grandmother Farris on this Saturday. I understand, from my dad...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 92 min read
The Kitchen
One of my happiest moments in the day happens in my kitchen around 5:30 in the morning. I have an hour before the sun rises, before the...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 72 min read
Mothers and Marigolds
Now and then, for no significant reason, thoughts of my mother interrupt a present moment; it happened yesterday while planting...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 51 min read
Time
‘The year is tiptoeing silently but briskly in front of my life. There is a clever thief amongst us it seems. It is sticky-fingered and...
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Pamela Shensky
Apr 21 min read
Purple and Gold
These days of spring are doing what they should, they are softly summoning feelings of renewal…and where can that be more prevailing than...
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