Entries by Sandra Marinella

Child’s Play

Laughter is echoing up the stairwells in my home.  Four little cousins are banging around plastic pots and pans in the play kitchen that was a Christmas gift. Intermittently one child bounds up the stairs to ask me what I want to eat and when I try to order elaborate meals, perhaps eggplant parmesan or […]

I Am Becoming

When characters have flaws, they intrigue us. Voldemort? Holden Caulfield? Amy Dunne? Jay Gatsby? They certainly had flaws! In the past few days, I have been caught up in the life of Jules Jessup, an eccentric artist and main character in Clare Pooley’s best-selling book, The Authenticity Project.  At 79-years-old Jules believes people are not […]

The Tapestry of Love

As a youngster in a small three-child household, the bathtub was the one space where you could be alone.  What did I do? I learned to sing loudly and freely when I took a bath.  And while my two brothers would snort and laugh at my singing, I developed strong vocal cords and abdominal muscles […]