leftbrainwrite

Hello dear readers--are you still out there?
It's been awhile, and I wouldn't blame you for moving on. I felt the need for change, and have spent some time with a new website, and setting it up is like learning a new language if, like me, you are a Luddite. So I am done writing here. It's been...

Today they started building The Wall. When I woke this morning and went down to the kitchen, Mum and Dad weren’t there. I followed the low murmur of the television and found them in the living room. Dad had his arm around Mum, and from the way her back...

Once upon a time, in a land far away called Brookline, I was a feminist. I lived a block off Beacon Street, which included three pregnancy clinics within a mile of each other. I held signs and helped make human fences so other girls and women could gain...

Christmas Eve feels more like Christmas than the actual day. As a child, we opened our presents on Christmas Eve, a slow process where every one opened a gift one at a time. Stockings were opened in the morning, after a pan of pannu-kakku, a Finnish...