Sister Rain’s Note: In 2015, I published 9.5 parts of “Piper & Me: A Love Story.” Beginning in March 2024 I reposted them weekly. I have since written new chapters and will continue to do so. If you would like to read any of the parts, type “Piper & Me”…
It is always nice to bring home a memento from a trip, it used to be t-shirts and newspapers (my husband loves out-of-town papers) but over time, we began to look for items we could display in our home. We have also begun to collect radio stations in our travels,…
Books and interviews by Anderson Cooper, as well as his podcast, “All There Is,” have taught me to ask someone who has told me a loved one has passed away what the deceased person’s name is. When I first heard this, I committed to the inquiry from that point forward….
Growing up, our neighbor two houses down had an in-ground pool, I spent most weekdays each summer there. Once I was in junior high, I joined my friends at the community pool until I began working at age 16. The Junes, Julys and Augusts of my youth were spent in…
This is my dining room table, the papers scattered across it are proofreading notes and edits to be made on stories I am drafting. If I need to handwrite something, I use a sharpie, printing very large. I am slightly embarrassed to tell you that most of what you read…
Sister Rain’s Note: In 2015, I published 9.5 parts of “Piper & Me: A Love Story.” Beginning in March 2024 I reposted them weekly. I have since written new chapters and will continue to do so. If you would like to read any of the parts, type “Piper & Me”…
On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, my husband and I met a couple from the UK. Our tables at the diner were very close together, their distinctive accents left no doubt about where they were from. Over scrambled eggs and pancakes, we struck up a conversation. On a two-week…
I started seeing a therapist a few months into my vision loss, when no one knew if my full sight would be restored. I had made a visit to my primary care physician a few weeks after my sudden blindness, and she gently made the suggestion that I might want…
Although my husband and I have our annoyances with each other in the normal way that 30+ years betrothed do, we are good partners in the daily duties of life, as well as when the big things occur. We have very different personalities and dispositions, yet our interests and values…
As I have shared on this website, I have visited sites where significant events in US History took place. I also have had the privilege and honor to lay wreaths at Veterans’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery on Wreaths Across America Day. I have seen the end. Recently I had…
