An Easter Wonder
There is an old house in Morbihan next to Caribbean Ice Co. A couple, the Knatts, lived there for much of their 90-plus years. About 3...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 301 min read
A Quick and Cantankerous Outburst
After a few tortuous minutes of cable TV, this (escapism) thought reappeared…sorry for the rant. I remember these days, days in spring...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 281 min read
Mother Goose
For a good part of winter, I keep baby chicks, ducks, and one (mother) goose in my laundry room in a box with a light. When they were a...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 271 min read
Marc Chagall and a Green Lizard
I recently posted a quote from Marc Chagall something that said, true art comes from the heart…"If I create from the heart, nearly...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 211 min read
Sunbeams and Robins
I intentionally walk slowly through the downstairs rooms, following the path of the late afternoon sun rays. Their light is magical, each...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 192 min read
Time Fades
It is funny how sometimes loneliness creeps in even as the world wondrously and beautifully wakes up once more in spring. As I watch...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 171 min read
Spiderworts, Beehives, and Rain
You must go early, before the sounds of our modern world absorb the silence that is morning. When the waxing moon still sits nearly...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 142 min read
Sketchy Screens
My poor laptop is filled with musings and pictures and stuff that has unnecessarily taken up space. I am doing somewhat of a ‘laptop...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 113 min read
Nellie
Nellie I watched the morning come in and thought about my mother. She was born on this day in 1932 in Ville Platte, Louisiana, a day that...
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Pamela Shensky
Mar 23 min read
A Poignant Place
My dad had just passed away when I began this Second Front column in 2006. It was a difficult time, the time when you moved to the top of...
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Pamela Shensky
Feb 282 min read
Blankets and a Baby Bed
Sometimes the best things happen by accident. I have just a short tale to tell about three blankets. Recently, our little Texas family...
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Pamela Shensky
Feb 212 min read
My Mother in Summer
Funny how we sometimes dream of summer in winter and winter in summer… I think I am doing that now on this gray day in late January. I...
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Pamela Shensky
Feb 22 min read
Goodnight Moon
Honestly, I was searching for something to write about this week, something with a bit of substance to perhaps give you a little thought...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 293 min read
Unplugged
Nineteen hundred ninety – two, that’s where my memories travel as I sit here in silence twenty-eight years later. The wrath of Hurricane...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 283 min read
She Held No Grudges
Our thirteen-year-old dog passed away. She was the last “family” dog, one of the pups in a litter of mutts. It was Elizabeth’s turn to...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 251 min read
Juicing
I instantly thought of summer days long ago when boredom was lurking, and kids were little and twitchy as the minutes sometimes crawled....
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 204 min read
A Winter Story
The morning was especially cold, and the sky was the perfect gray hue to match the bare trees. I haven’t heard the owl in many days but,...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 163 min read
The Met
It is very very cold this morning. We lost electricity late last night. That was a vulnerable place…'thank you' to the lineman who...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 132 min read
A Visitor
Old Man Winter is about to flex his muscles and show us, once again, who is in charge…Mother Nature will rule, no matter how smart we...
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Pamela Shensky
Jan 53 min read
A Quiet January Eighteen Years Later
The nighttime slowly changed to daytime as the hooting owl left the maple tree, and the morning birds snatched the quiet early morning...
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