A Spooky Story (Reprint from 2015)

When I got up this morning, there was a pot of hot coffee ready.  That’s all.  End of story. Oh, except for the part about how I live alone.  And I did not make that coffee. Oh, and guess what: It’s Halloween!  O-o-o-o-o-h!  And I just happen to live in The Last House on the Left.  O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h!   Coincidence?  I think not. […]

A Crone Cabin in the Woods … with a Pool?

  sunrise lights mesas river gurgles under ice earth still turns   Another dawn walk, another day, more beauty, more grief, more compassion for the complexities of this life and we who share this numinous earth. Susan J. Tweit, Sarton award-winning author of Bless the Birds   In my late 20’s I developed a strange fantasy about getting old: I […]

The Movable Pandemic

I was watching footage of Chris Rock on this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live when I got the calls. Of the five people invited to my place for Sunday lunch, one had hurt her back (ironically while doing her back exercises), and my sister had “mild but COVID-like” symptoms. Since I had been around my sister within the week, it […]

A Spooky Story

When I got up this morning, there was a pot of hot coffee ready.  That’s all.  End of story. Oh, except for the part about how I live alone.  And I did not make that coffee.