A Summer From Long Ago
In the middle of a June day, as I hang one of Elizabeth’s dresses to dry in the sun, I hear the sound of the cicada reassuring me it’s...
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Pamela Shensky
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Hints of Autumn
It is such a safe little corner, this place I go to each morning. I can sometimes see the weary moon through the window or hear the last...
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Pamela Shensky
- Sep 16
- 3 min
Our Mothers
They shared four o’clock seeds and exchanged recipes, recipes that were written on slips of random notebook paper and the backs of old...
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Pamela Shensky
- Sep 2
- 2 min
Once in a Blue Moon
I was there for the Blue Moon. I had completed a day filled with the preciousness of Santiago. It was a day at the Children’s Museum and...
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Pamela Shensky
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Ville Platte
I remember these houses from a long time ago, from visits with my mother. They were old and wooden and off the ground. Coffee was made in...
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Pamela Shensky
- Aug 16
- 2 min
God Winks
Just a tiny entry to make a record of something that just happened, something that some of you may call a ‘God Wink’…something I think of...
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Pamela Shensky
- Aug 5
- 4 min
The Cottage
One recent night, while waiting and then watching the full moon rise, I thought how constant the cycle of the moon, the habits of...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jul 23
- 2 min
What Remains
A short musing to those of you who are my generation, to those of you who are, now, at the top of the ‘family heap’… Summertime and...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jul 22
- 3 min
It's Hot
I am trusting Mother Nature knows what she is doing, but I wish she would ‘chill’ just a bit. I suppose this heat is doing to us what the...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jul 8
- 3 min
Little Friends of Summer...my Daily Iberian column
Little Friends of Summer Summer is in full swing by now. The solace has occurred, the Full Buck Super Moon lit up the skies on July 3,...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jul 7
- 3 min
Again
It seems 'cleaning out' things is somewhat of a theme for me during these Dog Days of Summer. This purge includes my computer files also....
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Pamela Shensky
- Jun 24
- 3 min
The Pool at the Park
August 4, 2013 I am choosing to republish this Sunday column from 2013, for now, ten years later, in 2023, our beloved city park pool...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jun 10
- 3 min
Summer
Summer…is here. What does that mean? It might mean family reunions with lots of cousins and new babies and tables of home prepared food...
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Pamela Shensky
- Jun 3
- 1 min
Home is Here
I don’t really know how I could ever live anywhere but here…I know where the full moon will rise, and I sit by a certain window each...
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Pamela Shensky
- May 31
- 2 min
Real Joy
You must go early, before the sounds of our modern world absorb the silence that is morning. When the waxing moon still sits nearly...
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Pamela Shensky
- May 27
- 2 min
Remembering
I was fine, until I walked into the backyard and saw the little blue pool sitting there…empty. The blue ‘shark’ was empty also; his days...
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Pamela Shensky
- May 17
- 2 min
Ordinary Days
A ‘reminder’ of sorts showed up on my FB feed this morning, a little nudge that has rerouted my day and my thoughts in a more achievable...
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Pamela Shensky
- May 13
- 3 min
'Umbrellas'
A small, brown table sat in my parent’s kitchen for most of my adult life; this is where nearly all my problems were solved. I would sit...
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Pamela Shensky
- Apr 30
- 2 min
Yesterdays
My sister, Susan, was born in Thibodaux, Louisiana on the first day of summer in 1958.I was going to be 4 years old 8 days later on June...
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Pamela Shensky
- Apr 24
- 1 min
Tomorrows
I remember these days, days in spring when my thoughts were light enough to sit on clouds for a bit and then suddenly taken away by the...
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