As I walked from the beach house where I was staying with friends toward the bay, I felt the long-awaited sunshine and heat on my neck and shoulders, the first gifts of approaching summer. I was born in July, a month of heavy humidity and friends away at the shore, making my birthday parties asContinue reading “Beach Memories and Mindfulness”
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Exploring Harvard and the Journey of Life Choices
Daniel and I walked up the steps of the massive brick building with imposing limestone pillars, which is Widener Library. We went inside and read the inscription there.
Writing to Remember … and Move Forward
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” –Anaïs Nin
The Ancestry and Legacy Journey
The Ancestry journey has been an exercise in “and the memory returns.” My father said that the Weideners came to Philadelphia prior to the Revolutionary War. “Weidener with three e’s is the real German spelling,” he insisted, not the Weidner and Widener as some spell it.
