Shana RitterMay 12, 20161 minSpinningSpinning It is a little over a month since my last piece. In that time the world has turned green, the peonies have opened and gracefully...
Shana RitterApr 8, 20161 minpoetryOutside the day has turned to cold gray rain and spring rolled back to a late winter sky. But oh the light. the light against the tender...
Shana RitterNov 6, 20141 minGhost Ranch RetreatWhen the boundaries of my heart are blurred it is time to retreat into the words held in that small cave: the place that is sweetly damp...
Shana RitterAug 21, 20141 minViajeI am having coca tea just off the plaza in Ollantaytambo . We have been traveling 5, or is it 6 days and therein lies my point. Time ...
Shana RitterJul 17, 20142 minWhat to do in order to contain the pulls and pushes of to do lists and have tos that have nothing toI think about the notion of compartmentalization. Cordoning off aspects of my life into sections fenced neatly off one from the other. It...
Shana RitterJul 2, 20141 minA question of balanceWhen my children were young and my days full of constant juggling I would take moment in the darkening and walk outside to look up at the...
Shana RitterJun 26, 20141 minGo Hoosiers!Today makes me proud to live in Indiana – yesterday the Indiana Supreme court found it unconstitutional to ban marriage between any two...
Shana RitterJun 19, 20141 minA little something on nothingToday I have an overwhelming urge to do nothing. To sit and let the day pass by, the sky shift from pale cloudless blue to a morass of...
Shana RitterJun 5, 20142 minLighting CandlesThis is birthday week at my house – my daughter, spouse, and both my grandsons’ birthdays come one after the other – 2 on the same day-...