Entries by Sandra Marinella

Unexpected Grace

The day we met, David preferred to remain a two-inch blacked-out Zoom box on my screen. He hadn’t wanted to be there at all, but his wife Sophie, who clearly cared about him, signed him up for our six-week story circle where cancer patients would share their stories and perhaps write with the intention of […]

A Moment of Gratitude

Last night was one of those evenings with a gentle breeze and the temps in the low eighties. The sun had disappeared in the west, but you could still see traces of the red rocks outlining the Eastern horizon and it all felt a bit magical and mysterious.      Steve and I started to turn […]

Hope

Once Upon a Time by Hannah Jayne      Once upon a time I was a 14-year-old girl in a training bra and a spiral perm, screaming my guts out at a one-inch-tall singer in rhinestones and a backward baseball cap. He was a New Kid on the Block, and I was one of 63,000 girls […]