by Carol Morrison | Nov 24, 2020 | Essays, The Biblio File
THANKS I grew up hearing Doris Day singing, “When you’re worried, and you can’t sleep, count your blessings instead of sheep”, on my parents’ radio. Later on, in my wild and crazy thirties, when I finally went to AA, I must have heard “Change your...
by Carol Morrison | Oct 3, 2020 | Essays, The Biblio File
THE FOUR A’S I learned St. Julian of Norwich’s Body Prayer in March, right before Ed got every parent’s worst nightmare of a phone call from our son in law, telling him that Sigrid, Ed’s daughter and my stepdaughter, had been diagnosed with brain cancer. Two...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 16, 2020 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File January 2020 Essay: “What Stuck” What Stuck I fretted about Ed’s and my upcoming trip, in which we’d fly to Atlanta, pick up a “gift car” from a family member there and drive it cross country to our kids in California, taking a...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Sep 18, 2019 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File September 2019 Essay: “The Fun Part?” THE FUN PART? I remember when the urge to write first hit me. I was about forty, and had finally, often painfully, moved through the first four of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. My physical needs were...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jul 24, 2019 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File July 2019 Essay: “Pride” Pride “Pride” has been a confusing concept for me. I was taught both not to have too much of it, thus avoid conceit, and to be filled with it, pleased with myself for academic or practical achievements. Pride goes before...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Jun 18, 2019 | Essays, The Biblio File
The Biblio File June 2019 Essay: “One of These Days” ONE OF THESE DAYS I could hardly stand it, I was so excited about seeing Emmylou Harris at The Gorge Amphitheater. Not only would I see the woman whose music I’ve adored since I was in my twenties, the...