Entries by Sandra Marinella

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 […]

Embrace the Silence

She was silent. It was hard for her, introverted and shy, to join my book club. She had explained that she had been living amid COVID-19 and California wildfires, and still trying to align a life after the loss of her husband. But she brought a quiet, calming aura into our Zoom room with her. […]