by Susan Gates | Dec 3, 2020
Photo by Jong Marshes on Unsplash In elementary school I learnedBuzz Aldrin sat on the moon238,900 miles up, 30 earths away.We glued our baby eyes to the grainy TV to see his “magnificent desolation.”In middle school I learnedthe Mariana trench was seven...
by Susan Gates | Dec 2, 2020
Years of cooking, baking, polishing and pulling out every last piece of good china boil down to this –lukewarm turkey and a slice of piewhile we, in masks, unfoil her plate and recount the day she missed. Instead of a dining room spiffed for the season...
by Susan Gates | May 7, 2020
Photo by Malcolm Lightbody on Unsplash “…wearied by the changes and chances of this life…” — Book of Common Prayer I’ve always been drawn to the word vicissitudes. Not so much for the denotation (“a change of...
by Susan Gates | Apr 30, 2020
April 23 was Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Most working moms were home. So, what did that day look like? “Working from home has been stressful,” says Liz Ha, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Five Talents, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives...
by Susan Gates | Apr 22, 2020
Weddings…involve people. Lots of people. So many weddings are not happening right now. Some have been postponed…indefinitely. Others have been rescheduled for a Tuesday or Wednesday in the fall, the only dates available. Some nuptials have gone ahead, with...
