by Susan Gates | Dec 12, 2021
Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash “There is some good stone-work here,” said Gimli as he looked at the walls; “but some that is less good, and the streets could be better contrived. When Aragorn comes into his own, I shall offer him the service of stonewrights of the...
by Susan Gates | Feb 10, 2021
Photo by Jared Erondu on Unsplash Though I stand just over 5 feet, my head feels 6 foot four. Maybe it’s a compensatory thing, I don’t know. But I am inundated with big ideas, big questions, big dreams. Take this morning. News that a melting glacier in the Himalayas...
by Susan Gates | Jan 21, 2021
Photo by Casey DeViese on Unsplash Picture this: I am about to dig into a deli sandwich — ciabatta, avocado and bacon. My mouth is watering for the first bite. But there’s a problem: I can’t taste it. I can’t taste anything. I might as well be...
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...
