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Reflections on a Month of Winter in Pennsylvania

by Sheila Collins | Jan 27, 2022 | Environment, Family, Personal Stories, Resilience, Rituals, Story-telling

Looking out my sliding glass door at the Allegheny River and its expanding shoreline I have evidence that January 2022 is one of the coldest Januarys we’ve had since we moved here in 2005. Snow covers the river almost halfway to its middle, resting on the ice that has...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Spring Cleaning

by Sheila Collins | May 3, 2012 | Personal Stories

When we used to have long harsh winters, the impulse in the first days of spring was to open the windows and doors and let the house breathe some fresh air. I remember when the women of the house would pull the linens off the beds, and the curtains off the windows,...

Reflections on a Month of Winter in Pennsylvania

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

Spring Cleaning

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