Author: ADA

  September 18, 2017 St. Helena, CA As daylight breaks I wake up to the sounds of the harvest morning. “Hurry, hurry, rapidamente ahora, move, now.” Yells the stranger’s voice. Visible through my bedroom drapes a row of men hunch over the vines, hoodies hide their faces. I quickly dress to the beat of the…

Yesterday I went to the vet to pick up Lolly Brown our Labrador. I said, “Hello, Loll,” the way I have always greeted her and then sang a little ditty I made up years ago. You can hum it however you like, but my tune is somewhere between “Paris in Springtime” and “Happy Birthday.” Lolly…

  MY BUCKET LIST & LEONARD COHEN Several weeks ago I told my sisters that foremost on my bucket list would be to hang with Leonard Cohen; writing poetry, waxing life, and looking out at the sand meeting the sea, just as he might have been doing on the island of Hydra in the 1960s.…