by Sharon Heath | Mar 20, 2021 | Blog
One day this past January, chuffed about having received my first Moderna vaccine the previous morning, and undoubtedly a little woozier than I realized, I had a shocking encounter with a flock of chickens. (Cue Jaws/Land Shark theme music from Saturday Night Live,...
by Sharon Heath | May 5, 2017 | Blog
Fleur Robins burst into my life like a firecracker, excitedly skipping ahead of me, tugging me into realms I barely knew existed and stretching my mind as impossibly as childbirth once stretched my body. Writers are often encouraged to write about what we know, but my...
by Sharon Heath | Nov 27, 2016 | Blog
I can’t believe it’s been two whole years since I last posted here in Cyber Land. During that time, a new grandchild burst into my life like a wild wind, toppling old routines and riveting my attention. I’ve become the archetypal grandma, yakking away to everyone I...
by Sharon Heath | Jun 15, 2014 | Blog
Fathers of daughters can make or break their girls’ sense of worth, competency, confidence, ambition, ethics, zest for life, feminine appeal. Traditionally, they’ve served as bridges for their daughters into the wider world. Unless they totally blow it,...
by Sharon Heath | Aug 7, 2013 | Blog
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE…except when they’re threatened with extinction. (“Flight,” Adriane Grimadi) And you can’t take the sixties out of the girl ~ especially, I’ve discovered, in her sixties. More than four decades ago – in a time, like our own,...