by mary1988 | Dec 22, 2016 | 2016
On this day after the Winter Solstice, there is more light than darkness. Every day at noon, the alarm on my wristwatch beeps a reminder to pause and pray for peace. It is not the glorious sound of church bells ringing across the countryside, but it works. The...
by mary1988 | Dec 3, 2016 | 2016
Every once in a while I hear a story that inspires, that reminds me that when we choose to work arm-in-arm to protect that which we hold dear, we can accomplish what feels like the impossible.This is such a story. For over twelve years, a group of citizens has...
by mary1988 | Nov 15, 2016 | 2016
Until now, I have had little good to say about the press over the last year. But on October 31st, an MLive reporter named Garret Ellison published a story, notifying people in the region of a plan by Nestlé to significantly increase the amount of water pumped from one...
by mary1988 | Nov 4, 2016 | 2016
When I began jogging almost forty years ago, it was a dreaded exercise motivated by fear. I remember running laps around our apartment building in Milwaukee every day at the edge of dawn. My stomach hurt. My knees ached. My mind rattled off reasons I should be...
by mary1988 | Oct 23, 2016 | 2016
When I first began writing this blog in August of 2012, I wrote about “my reader.” A sculpture of rusted steel, she sits in our front yard balancing a book in one hand, a glass of wine in the other. I wrote, “What would I tell her, my reader, if she were my daughter?”...
by mary1988 | Sep 11, 2016 | 2016
If I close my eyes for an hourand listen to the waterlapping against the stern of our boat,am I wasting time? Or if I straddle my legson a lime-colored noodleand float until fingerswrinkle like prunes,am I a slacker? And if I do nothingbut watch the...
