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Vacations and Holidays

by Sheila Collins | Aug 2, 2017 | Art & Life, Environment, Personal Stories, Story-telling

“What is the purpose of your visit?” the English customs officer asked as we approached his window 20 plus years ago on our first visit to Europe. “We’re on vacation,” we said.“Oh, on holiday,” he corrected us. I’m not sure I know the difference between the two even...

Las Vegas Happened To Me Twice

by Sheila Collins | Apr 15, 2016 | book promotion, Past Events, Personal Stories, Story-telling

Last week Rich and I got up at 4 am to make a direct flight to Las Vegas, one of my least favorite destinations. If you don’t count stops at the Vegas airport on the way to somewhere else, I’d only been to Vegas twice before. In 1992, my in-laws took the family there...

Music for Whiling Away the Miles

by Sheila Collins | Aug 21, 2014 | Songs

Finally a rainy morning where I can lounge a bit in my version of the universal writer’s uniform, my pajamas. The past ten days have been relentlessly busy with mostly all good things, but going the speed of the body means at this point, some stationary down time. In...

Home Sweet Home

by Sheila Collins | Feb 2, 2014 | Personal Stories, Story-telling

On the road for ten days, half the time in Dallas/Fort Worth and at a ranch 100 miles north, I spent the remaining time in Atlanta, returning to Pittsburgh and temperatures in the teens. Each place I visited was having unusual weather, mostly colder than expected, but...

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...

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Vacations and Holidays

Las Vegas Happened To Me Twice

Music for Whiling Away the Miles

Home Sweet Home

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

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