Entries by Sandra Marinella

The Rocky Path

Once a year my ritual is to unplug my computer and pack my bag. Then I turn my back on the writing and emails that beckon to me and head my steering wheel toward Sedona. I missed this ritual last year, and my soul felt I needed it more than ever.  I longed to hike […]

A Crack in Everything

There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. That’s how the light gets in That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen   This song became stuck in my head last year as I prepared a keynote speech for one of my favorite groups of word lovers, the National […]

Turning Points

Although I am not ready to celebrate the end of the pandemic yet, I have had the vaccine and like a sand crab inching out of his burrow, I want to inch forward, too. While excited, I know that turning points can be fraught with difficulties and stress.  But I also know that life has […]