Category Archives: Transitions

Odd Anniversaries – Victoria, BC – [02/08/2022]

I was never really part of it. It was just something that I did okay? ~ A League of their Own Has it really been almost two years? The memories that are starting to crop up on my social media … Continue reading

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Midnight Musings – [12/09/2021]

It was not the beginning. There are no beginnings or endings in the turning of the wheel of time…but it was a beginning. It occurs to me that I haven’t had a lot to say lately. I realized a few … Continue reading

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Live the Life You Choose – Victoria, BC – [07/22/2021]

Just tonight I stood before the tavern Nothing seemed the way it used to be In the glass I saw a strange reflection Was that lonely woman really me? […] Oh my friend we’re older but no wiser For in … Continue reading

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It May Have Been A Headache, But It Never Was A Bore – Victoria, BC – [03/27/2021]

Thanks for the memories Of candlelight and wine, Castles on the Rhine The Parthenon and moments on the Hudson River Line How lovely it was…. I feel like I have to say something, and yet I really don’t even know … Continue reading

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How Do You Measure? – Victoria, BC – [03/16/2021]

In the truths that we learned Or the times that we cried In the bridges we burned Or the way that we died? How much can change…in a year. A year ago this week Amras and I were in Rio, … Continue reading

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Letter to the Editor – Second Edition – [11/07/2020]

She’s fighting back! ~ The Last Unicorn Dear States I wrote to you four years ago on the eve of a very different election, with a very different outcome. Then, you had let the fury of the red bull in … Continue reading

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Flying Blind into 38 – [10/04/2020]

She took the midnight train going Anywhere… Where to even begin about 37. Where does anyone begin about this particularly bizarre trip around the sun? 37 is in two distinct halves. The first was, fairly normal, fairly straight forward. The … Continue reading

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New Growth – Victoria, BC – [09/06/2020]

I have never cultivated the art of having a green thumb. One of the many many areas where I didn’t follow in my parents’ footsteps (mostly because all the times they wanted to teach me about gardening, I was more … Continue reading

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My Old Girl – [07/15/2020]

And why do they always say Don’t look back? […] Don’t hold on to the past Well that’s too much to ask 9 years ago I walked shaking up the gangway of the flagship, excited and terrified all at once. … Continue reading

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Relief Efforts – News from Aboard – [03/17/2020]

Live at 5 and CNN, keep us all abreast Of breaking stories that contend to make us anxious and depressed Problems with no answers hang on like some chronic cough And every day some brand new issue, rears its head … Continue reading

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