Christmas is Here
I am sitting down to write, early, during these pre-dawn moments of the Winter Solstice, December 2023. I am waiting for the sunrise...
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Pamela Shensky
Dec 9, 20233 min read
The Owl and The Tree
The Owl and The Tree I heard an owl hooting a bit after midnight; I suppose it was he who woke me up. He was in the maple tree in the...
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Pamela Shensky
Nov 25, 20233 min read
A Winter Wish
A Winter Wish It is early Thanksgiving morning and as the sun rises, the holiday season begins. Grace will be said at Thanksgiving...
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Pamela Shensky
Nov 11, 20232 min read
A Thanksgiving Kitchen
An apron… the thought of it instantly conjures up a picture of my mom on Thanksgiving morning, a morning that began very early for her....
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Pamela Shensky
Oct 28, 20232 min read
The Stranger
A Stranger "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!". This haunting quote by Robert Burns seems to be an ongoing theme...
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Pamela Shensky
Oct 14, 20233 min read
The Apple and the Duck
Long ago, when the world was not as big as now, and childhood was mostly spent outside, I wished for something; I wished I could share...
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Pamela Shensky
Sep 30, 20232 min read
Hints of Autumn
It is such a safe little corner, this place I go to each morning. I can sometimes see the weary moon through the window or hear the last...
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Pamela Shensky
Sep 16, 20233 min read
Our Mothers
They shared four o’clock seeds and exchanged recipes, recipes that were written on slips of random notebook paper and the backs of old...
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Pamela Shensky
Sep 2, 20232 min read
Once in a Blue Moon
I was there for the Blue Moon. I had completed a day filled with the preciousness of Santiago. It was a day at the Children’s Museum and...
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Pamela Shensky
Aug 18, 20232 min read
Ville Platte
I remember these houses from a long time ago, from visits with my mother. They were old and wooden and off the ground. Coffee was made in...
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Pamela Shensky
Aug 16, 20232 min read
God Winks
Just a tiny entry to make a record of something that just happened, something that some of you may call a ‘God Wink’…something I think of...
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Pamela Shensky
Aug 5, 20234 min read
The Cottage
One recent night, while waiting and then watching the full moon rise, I thought how constant the cycle of the moon, the habits of...
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 23, 20232 min read
What Remains
A short musing to those of you who are my generation, to those of you who are, now, at the top of the ‘family heap’… Summertime and...
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 22, 20233 min read
It's Hot
I am trusting Mother Nature knows what she is doing, but I wish she would ‘chill’ just a bit. I suppose this heat is doing to us what the...
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 8, 20233 min read
Little Friends of Summer...my Daily Iberian column
Little Friends of Summer Summer is in full swing by now. The solace has occurred, the Full Buck Super Moon lit up the skies on July 3,...
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Pamela Shensky
Jul 7, 20233 min read
Again
It seems 'cleaning out' things is somewhat of a theme for me during these Dog Days of Summer. This purge includes my computer files also....
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 24, 20233 min read
The Pool at the Park
August 4, 2013 I am choosing to republish this Sunday column from 2013, for now, ten years later, in 2023, our beloved city park pool...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 10, 20233 min read
Summer
Summer…is here. What does that mean? It might mean family reunions with lots of cousins and new babies and tables of home prepared food...
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Pamela Shensky
Jun 3, 20231 min read
Home is Here
I don’t really know how I could ever live anywhere but here…I know where the full moon will rise, and I sit by a certain window each...
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Pamela Shensky
May 31, 20232 min read
Real Joy
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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