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Good Bugs/Bad Bugs

by Sheila Collins | Jan 7, 2021 | Art & Life, Environment, Family, Health, Health and Wellness, Personal Stories

It all started because the San Francisco Sourdough bread we always got at Whole Foods lost its connection to everybody’s favorite city. The loaves we purchased weekly began looking and tasting more like Truck Stop White bread, or the too soft mass-produced square...

Me, We and Our Shadows

by Sheila Collins | Dec 30, 2020 | Art & Life, Family, Personal Stories, Songs

Cleaning my workspace the other morning a line from a song kept playing on a loop in my inner ear, “Me and my shadow, all alone and feeling blue.” After a bit I began singing the line out loud and a second line came, “Me and my shadow, not a soul to tell our troubles...

Shall We Dance?

by Sheila Collins | Dec 9, 2020 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Community, Dances, Family, Gatherings, Resilience

Tis the season… to decorate the house and front yard, to shop for and wrap gifts, sort recipes and bake, and usually –plan the family gatherings. It’s also the season for advice columns, articles, blogs, and countless interviews with experts all trying to answer the...

Thanksgiving and Covid19

by Sheila Collins | Nov 26, 2020 | Art & Life, Celebrations, Environment, Family, Gatherings, History, Our Children, Personal Stories, Rituals

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I’m looking out my back-patio window at this morning’s rather muddy Allegheny River. The stillness I’m surveying matches a deep stillness in me, a gift Covid19 has granted me. It’s slowed me down these past nine months. It’s...

Learning from Loss

by Sheila Collins | Nov 12, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Duality, Family, History, Personal Stories, social justice, Uncategorized

My brother called me Sunday morning from his home in New Mexico. “I’m just checking in to see how you’re doing after the election,” he said in a cheerful voice. I was delighted to hear from him, and since we hadn’t spoken in months, I realized he might not know for...

Let’s Honor Tears

by Sheila Collins | Oct 29, 2020 | Art & Life, Community, Family, Grieving, Improvisation, Our Children, Personal Stories, Story-telling, The Art of Grieving

I’d always hear that in the Victorian era, children where to be “seen and not heard.” Since crying can be kind of noisy, I imagine there had to be ways to discourage it in young children. When my eight-year old granddaughter Kyra reintroduced me this week to Alice in...

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Good Bugs/Bad Bugs

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Thanksgiving and Covid19

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