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Shana Ritter
Jul 2, 20141 min read
A question of balance
When my children were young and my days full of constant juggling I would take moment in the darkening and walk outside to look up at the...
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Shana Ritter
Jun 26, 20141 min read
Go Hoosiers!
Today makes me proud to live in Indiana – yesterday the Indiana Supreme court found it unconstitutional to ban marriage between any two...
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Shana Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
A little something on nothing
A little something on nothing.
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Shana Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
A little something on nothing
Today I have an overwhelming urge to do nothing. To sit and let the day pass by, the sky shift from pale cloudless blue to a morass of...
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Shana Ritter
Jun 11, 20141 min read
weathering
Summer The sky has a glow even at ten pm but the stormy skies drive me in instead of out. Just a week ago the days shone like July, full...
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Shana Ritter
Jun 5, 20142 min read
Lighting Candles
This is birthday week at my house – my daughter, spouse, and both my grandsons’ birthdays come one after the other – 2 on the same day-...
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Shana Ritter
May 29, 20142 min read
Fireflies
I am mourning the loss of fireflies: the warm summer dusks that raise the cacophony of insect symphony and frog calls followed by the...
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Shana Ritter
May 22, 20142 min read
Foreshadowing
I was seven in the summer of 1961 and as we did every summer we drove across the Tappan Zee from the Bronx apartment up to Buena Vista...
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Shana Ritter
May 15, 20141 min read
Unfolding Time
Ever notice how an hour in the morning – say between 9 and 10 can pass by in minutes, and an hour in the late afternoon say between 3:30...
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Shana Ritter
May 8, 20141 min read
Still Country
My home is bounded by woods. Once the leaves have opened and the brambles grown back up I cannot see another house. On occasion a mower,...
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Shana Ritter
May 1, 20141 min read
The happenstance of blue
This last week has been very full. A trip to Toronto for a family reunion the youngest ages 10 months, the eldest 92, a rare visit from a...
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Shana Ritter
Apr 25, 20141 min read
Poem a day…
All through April I have been writing a poem a day. Friends and I took the National Poetry Month challenge and created a shared place to...
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Shana Ritter
Apr 17, 20141 min read
Made of Memories
I have been writing a poem a day in honor of national poetry month. Four of us who write together weekly have been sharing these online...
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