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Viaje
I 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 Ritter
Aug 21, 20141 min read


Dreaming
Last night in my dream I saw a glacier out the window. It invited me to walk on it, it’s name was murphy’s glacier. When I turned from...

Shana Ritter
Aug 7, 20141 min read


What to do in order to contain the pulls and pushes of to do lists and have tos that have nothing to
I think about the notion of compartmentalization. Cordoning off aspects of my life into sections fenced neatly off one from the other. It...

Shana Ritter
Jul 17, 20142 min read


A question of balance
When 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 Ritter
Jul 2, 20141 min read


Go Hoosiers!
Today makes me proud to live in Indiana – yesterday the Indiana Supreme court found it unconstitutional to ban marriage between any two...

Shana Ritter
Jun 26, 20141 min read


A little something on nothing
Today 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 Ritter
Jun 19, 20141 min read
Lighting Candles
This is birthday week at my house – my daughter, spouse, and both my grandsons’ birthdays come one after the other – 2 on the same day-...

Shana Ritter
Jun 5, 20142 min read
Fireflies
Fireflies. #Writing

Shana Ritter
May 29, 20141 min read
Unfolding Time
Unfolding Time.

Shana Ritter
May 15, 20141 min read
Still Country
Still Country. #Writing

Shana Ritter
May 8, 20141 min read
The happenstance of blue
The happenstance of blue.

Shana Ritter
May 1, 20141 min read


Made of Memories
I have been writing a poem a day in honor of national poetry month. Four of us who write together weekly have been sharing these online...

Shana Ritter
Apr 17, 20141 min read

Shana Ritter
Mar 20, 20140 min read


DANCE!
I think we learn to love what has been lovingly shared with us. I saw my first dance performance when I was ten. My Aunt Terry took me to...

Shana Ritter
Mar 13, 20141 min read
Making Soup
Making Soup.

Shana Ritter
Mar 6, 20141 min read
Next Steps in the Writing Room
Next Steps in the Writing Room.

Shana Ritter
Feb 6, 20141 min read
Moving at the Speed of Slow
Moving at the Speed of Slow.

Shana Ritter
Jan 23, 20141 min read
Another Way to Look at Snow Days
Another Way to Look at Snow Days. #Writing

Shana Ritter
Jan 10, 20141 min read

Shana Ritter
Dec 26, 20131 min read
the wonder of memory
the wonder of memory. #Writing

Shana Ritter
Nov 14, 20131 min read
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