I read Dear Life, by Alice Munro, and I am, as is the literary world, intrigued by her last four stories, the ones she describes as “not quite ...
On March 20, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzI am pretty much an empty nester. I thought this would be sad, but woohoo! My front hall is neater. The coats are hung up instead of over ...
On March 13, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzOne day. Twenty-four hours. One thousand, four hundred and forty minutes. Eighty-six thousand, four hundred seconds. A day can be a cliché: Live each day as if it’s ...
On March 6, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzThis is the first time, ever, that I have taken a week just to myself. No kids, no husband. Just me. I am staying with my brother and ...
On February 20, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzIt was fifty years ago that The Beatles rocked our world on the Ed Sullivan Show. Where were you? I was eight; sitting around the television as usual ...
On February 13, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzWe go to retreats, ashrams, and on pilgrimages to find the parts of ourselves that we feel we have lost along the way, and to find meaning and ...
On January 30, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzI was rummaging through plastic storage containers where I keep an assortment of memorabilia. The kids first artistic scrawls, report cards, letters to the tooth fairy, photographs that ...
On January 23, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzI am in a tree house. So it seems. I can look out three walls of windows to the back garden. I am high up. It’s the way ...
On January 16, 2014 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzI hear the ice storm from the open window in my bedroom. The pellets sting the roof and assault the already frozen ground. In the light of the ...
On December 26, 2013 / By Jacqueline MarkowitzMy mother-in-law used to close her eyes as if by doing so she could close out anything that was weighing on her mind, or unpleasant in her life. ...
On December 19, 2013 / By Jacqueline Markowitz"Don’t tell me you are passionate.
Show me what it is that makes you breathe.
That force which creates the life, the love,
and the joy you have to share.”
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