Lake George
Nicknamed the Queen of American lakes, and a lake that Thomas Jefferson, in 1791, wrote “is without comparison the most beautiful water I ever saw,” still is today. Located in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York,…
Only In Silence
She can be as gentle
As the opening and closing of a flower,
With her morning, noon, and night
Encased in each hour.
An interview about writing and Life at 12 College Road
I was honored to have Jan Bowman, writer and winner of the 2011 Roanoke Review Fiction Award, interview me for her blog about writing and why I wrote Life at 12 College Road.
My Life being a maze of endless puzzles
My life, being a maze
of endless puzzles,
leads me blindly
through time’s whimsical corridors.
Riding the train
I was honored to have my article Riding the Train, published by Boomercafe.com, the original digital magazine for baby boomers with active lifestyles and youthful spirits.
I started to think about you today –
As If We Were I started to think about you today Of how you left my life without a whisper, Just going as if you had never come. The days when I thought you were Happy and you would laugh at the world And its failures, but now I know it wasn’t your World, but … Read more…
Have you ever considered that you might be important?
Most of us have never really considered that we might be important. And truth be told, by typical standards, we aren’t. Only a handful of us ever get to be presidents or generals, or invent or cure something, or become saints for that matter. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t important to someone. That’s what binds us. … Read more…
Going for the Gold
I was honored to have an excerpt from my book Life at 12 College Road published on Boomercafe.com, the digital magazine for baby boomers with active lifestyles and youthful spirits. With the 2014 Olympics winding down, we love this excerpt called Going for the Gold from Eric Mondschein’s new book Life at 12 College Road. It evokes the kind of imagination … Read more…
In silence we can sometimes find those memories that have eluded us
My voice is silent now,
Retreating within myself,
Groping, grasping, for fleeting
Memories to transplant in time…
Life Shaping Power of Memories
Author Eric Mondschein on the life shaping power of memories I was honored to write a guest post for Boomercafe.com, the digital magazine for baby boomers with active lifestyles and youthful spirits. Writer and baby boomer Eric Mondschein – who lives in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York – has found a way to collect his memories and … Read more…