by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Outlook
I write this on the day before the October 2, 2021 Women’s March for Reproductive Rights, remembering my participation in the first Women’s March of January 2017. I have the best hat in the world. It is black and sags a bit to the side giving it the air of a living...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Observations
Do I Bow or Can I Hug? I pondered this question as I sat on the ten-hour flight from Los Angeles to Haneda Airport near Tokyo for our first ever visit to Japan. Tatsuya had been a twenty-nine year old businessman when he joined our family briefly in 1994. He came as...
by Nicole | Sep 30, 2021 | Children's Tales
My Aunt Sherry lives in Peter Cooper Village. That’s in New York City near the East River. I’m staying over this week because it’s my birthday and Aunt Sherry is making me a party. I’ll be four. I can’t wait to be four. I’ll be a big girl then. Aunt Sherry has flaming...
by Nicole | Sep 28, 2021 | Children's Tales
From The Play’s the Thing Children’s Series This is an easy-to-read series for emergent readers. Written as short plays, it encourages parents and children to read together, each taking a role, to make learning to read an enjoyable collaboration. ...
by Nicole | Sep 28, 2021 | Notes from Kosovo
While snow piles up in Vermont and New Hampshire, I have to buy a pair of sunglasses to shield my eyes from the bright Prishtina sun because it never occurred to me to pack my own. It is in the mid-fifties and I sweat a bit under the scarf and winter coat that I...
