Opinions Matter

On January 18, 2018, just seven days after President Trump made his remark about people from “shithole countries,” the Gallup news organization released the results of a new poll. It revealed that globally, when 1,000 […]

Champions

A number of years ago, a great Olympian faced his final challenge in attempting to reach the Olympics. While three times he had participated in the games, the stresses of the trials never subside. It […]

To Her Last Breath

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I […]

Invisible Hands, Invisible Love

My 26-year-old son showed up at home unexpectedly a few days ago…on his new motorcycle. He appeared in the kitchen, holding a helmet and excitedly beckoning me outside to show me his new acquisition. […]

Etched in Stone

The town of Hancock, NH, where I live, is 237 years old, and even though the population has dwindled to 1,654 inhabitants, the fact that the town has existed for so many years necessitates […]

Seeking a Room of One’s Own

I just finished rereading Virginia Woolf’s classic A Room of One’s Own. I first read this book in my early twenties, and my admiration of it was more academic than actual. I agreed with the […]

Fantasy Fauxbourdon: The Magic Kingdom

I am back from a three-day junket to Walt Disney World, visiting the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Animal Kingdom with my Ukrainian wife and little girl. Perhaps this theme park tryptic could not offer a […]

by Marcia Amidon
Posted on December 13, 2015December 13, 2015
Rewording

2015 feels like it has been a year of losses for me. There have been huge losses: the loss of my dad, whom I loved very much, and of course to a lesser degree, the […]

For My Dad

For My Dad I just wrote my father’s obituary; the first obituary I have ever written. Obituaries aren’t all that difficult to write, at first glance. Anyone who has read even a few knows […]

Trading Places

In six hours, my fiancé and our little girl will wake to begin a journey to a new life, eventually landing themselves in America this July. But they are not simply leaving another country; they are […]