Friends

Jessie's Message (for Captain Margaret L. Putman)

Once upon a time, I had a dear friend named Maggie. She taught herself calligraphy, sitting at a drafting table and painstakingly writing...

A Year of Found Friends

Sometimes, the universe is kind. In a time of anxiety, even terror that you might lose those you love, it gives you back people you lost....

Friends Across Oceans (for Shafali, the newest one)

Grab your cup of tea, glass of wine, handkerchief, tissues if you are up for this sentimental post. All set? Here we go. One summer...

For Sabina

Plaid pale pants Puffy black jacket Short stylish black hair (Shorter than I remember) Those deepset black eyes as bright and...

Take Time to Smell the Roses (and make Rose Jam!)

Eating rose petals? That concept is not as strange to me as it might be to some others. When I was a child, I remember wandering in the...

For Helen Francis-Lang ("The English Patient")

It happens every time I see A woman with wavy blond Hair to her shoulders, her stride Confident, brisk. I think , Helen, of you. I...

Triptych for Tarif (pre-election 2016)

Part I. He went to Dubai on a business trip from the US where he lived, and took a few days to visit his mother in Saudi Arabia. When he...

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