by Carole Duff | Jan 6, 2025 | Faith |
“Rebutting Body Shame” first appeared in The Sage Forum’s January 2025 Newsletter. In the late 70s, my mother-in-law’s younger sister entered a women’s magazine make-over contest. Pat was in her mid-forties, a Harvard JD, teaching law at a prestigious university. “I...
by Carole Duff | Dec 23, 2024 | Faith |
My gift to you first appeared in The Sage Forum’s December 2024 newsletter. Carole Duff, flute, Carolyn Wallace, organ “He Shall Feed His Flock” from Handel’s Messiah Performed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fishersville,...
by Carole Duff | Aug 26, 2024 | Faith, Writing and Reading |
Rough driveway at Vanaprastha 2010 July 1, 2010. While merging into a swirl of traffic on the Baltimore Beltway at Providence Road, my final commute home, I thought about the decision I’d made. I had given up my job, which entailed staying with a colleague during the...
by Carole Duff | Mar 11, 2024 | Faith, Family, Writing and Reading |
When we woke to steady rain on Saturday morning, I wondered, “What do I dedicate my time to today?” Not yard work or dog-walking or housecleaning or cooking, since Keith was going to our church’s Men’s Breakfast and would only want a snack later. Yes, to reading,...
by Carole Duff | Mar 4, 2024 | Faith, Nature, Writing and Reading |
I knew I should suffer well, but when twinges zapped my leg in the middle of the night, my pain meter rocketed from zero to ten in a split second. While massaging my leg, stretching, and walking out the electrical shock-like twinge-cramps, I told myself, no...
