To the Single Mom at Christmas
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/24.-To-the-Single-Mom-at-Christmas.mp3 You are enough. You have enough. You do enough. This can feel like the ultimate Noah’s Arc time – two by two couples march through the season, decking...
Imaginary Ages
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/22.-Imaginary-Ages.mp3 My Mom feels 36 and is shocked every time she looks in the mirror and sees an old woman. Coincidentally, my imaginary age is also 36. While I don’t see an 87-year-old gramma,...
Game of Crones
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/19.-Game-of-Crones.mp3 You’ve seen them: The women in grocery stores who pilot their carts like walkers, taking every aisle as exercise. They drive slowly, park uncertainly, and chatter to...
War and Peace
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/17.-War-and-Peace.mp3 Last year the Tower of London was awash in bright red ceramic poppies. 888,246 of them carpeted the lawns, one for each soldier killed in the First World War. It was amazing;...
The Liar, the Witch and the Wardrobe
LISTEN NOW https://graceandgoodfortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/16.-The-Liar-the-Witch-and-the-Wardrobe.mp3 Halloween stirs up all kinds of things, a smoky mix of anticipation and fear, life and death, blood and chocolate. Since my daughter was very young, we...