Love thy neighbor – Page 8 – Heather Choate Davis

Don’t judge

Favourable Wind

My daughter is at the airport as we speak, heading off to Colorado for a month of summer school to study drawing. It’s an exciting time but there has been some trepidation, as well, mostly about the chaos of the airport and the margin for error in getting from here to there. I turned toContinue reading “Favourable Wind”

Grace in the Parenting Storm

It was hard to ignore all the media swirling around the Time magazine cover on “attachment parenting” last week. The shot of the mother nursing a boy who appeared old enough to play t-ball was designed to stop us in our tracks—it did, good job with that—still, I found myself curiously unstirred about the issueContinue reading “Grace in the Parenting Storm”

In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite

I hear them before I see them, their voices rising up in sing-song and echoing off the greenhouse dome that covers the pool at our local YMCA. I can’t tell what they’re singing, only that they sound happy and spry—more like a schoolgirl choir than a pool full of women in their final decades. CrossingContinue reading “In Praise of Old Women with Cellulite”

Lessons from the Garden

Every once in a great while I come across something so simple and brilliant and true I wish I’d written it myself. I didn’t, but I can do the next best thing, which is to share it with you. This very short story was written by Anne Herbert, who I’ve come to discover is theContinue reading “Lessons from the Garden”