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  • Another October

    Many years ago I wrote a column titled “Sandals in October” due to the unusually warm weather we experienced in upstate New York. Here it is another October and it’s been even warmer than then. To add insult to injury we’re in the midst of a drought, causing all the fruit trees to produce smaller Continue reading

  • Happy Smellers

    April The greatest compliment anyone can give me is when they enter our house, they take a deep breath and say “Man, it smells good in here!” Whether it be the sauce bubbling on the stove in the kitchen, a candle I’ve just lit or a bouquet of flowers in the living room, I love Continue reading

  • Flying Bye

    I was already annoyed because I didn’t have time to buy a book between my flight from Phoenix to Charlotte, when I realized “Hey! I write books!” So heres my attempt to gather my thoughts for another. These are basically the outline; the bones of the work. There is much more meat to fill in. Continue reading

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  • EASTER FLOWERS

    Easter is my favorite time of year. Not Christmas or Thanksgiving. It is without a doubt, Easter. It signals the beginning of Spring, the awaking of a new season and the end of the liturgical year. Ordinary time begins. When I was a young girl, the signal of the Easter season was the announcement that Continue reading

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  • THE GOOD FRIDAY BET

    Every Easter season my children and I have this little ritual.  It’s called the Good Friday Bet, and it is simply this:   I bet them $10 that on every Good Friday, at 3:00 pm, it will rain. The first time I bet them, the youngest three were third, fourth and fifth graders in Catholic School.  It was something unique Continue reading

  • What This Week Brings

    As I read the musings from another blogger*, I was moved to create my own view of “What This Week Brings” This week brought sprigs of small flowers in the 60 degree sunshine, melting the last of the snow banks piled in the yard. This week brought 60 mile an hour winds, blowing away the Continue reading

  • A Holy Trinity

    As it is the last day of December and the last hours of this demanding pandemic, I thought I might share some of my thoughts to document this troublesome year. One day I was celebrating my birthday and St. Patricks day in a bar with all of my friends, the next day were were in Continue reading

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  • www.facebook.com/eileenloveman/videos/10204728616751657/ We have a room Continue reading

  • AN OPEN LOVE LETTER TO MY HUSBAND

    Things I’ve learned about him and myself When riding on the back of a snowmobile on snowy trails, he told me to pay attention to the hand signals of approaching drivers. What I’ve learned so far is an oncoming snowmobiler will give you the “Fight the power fist” if he is the only one coming Continue reading

  • FLYING BY

    The summer has come and gone without my barely writing a word.  If it weren’t for the newspaper articles I write, there wouldn’t have been anything at all.   My creative spirit is paralyzed as the result of an action by another.   It is somewhat of a release to put this down on paper, Continue reading

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Essayist, yogi, mom and wife, not necessarily in that order.

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