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Neither Here nor There
Neither Here nor There.

Shana Ritter
Apr 10, 20141 min read
Neither Here nor There
Today I am silly with jet lag – which really doesn’t make much sense as I have been back home from Spain for almost a week. I don’t...

Shana Ritter
Apr 10, 20142 min read
Where do we find the sacred?
Where do we find the sacred?.

Shana Ritter
Apr 2, 20141 min read
Where do we find the sacred?
Yesterday I visited La Sagrada Familia – the cathedral designed by Gaudi and still under construction. I have been four times in the last...

Shana Ritter
Apr 2, 20141 min read
What I notice when I travel
What I notice when I travel.

Shana Ritter
Mar 26, 20141 min read


What I notice when I travel
The days take on a rhythm from the inside out. I walk in the morning. The weather is at the center of the day. The daily tasks of others...

Shana Ritter
Mar 26, 20141 min read

Shana Ritter
Mar 20, 20140 min read
The Place Between
I am waiting for a flight to Spain at JFK. This is the in between time. I have internet, I have a couple of hours, and I have a to do...

Shana Ritter
Mar 20, 20141 min read
DANCE!
DANCE!.

Shana Ritter
Mar 13, 20141 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


Making Soup
Lately I have fallen back in love with soup. Anything from chicken stock with minimal vegetables to pureed potato leek , to beans,...

Shana Ritter
Mar 6, 20141 min read
COMMON AS GRASS
I really don’t believe in writer’s block even though for the last week I haven’t written a thing I want to go back to, nothing is...

Shana Ritter
Feb 27, 20142 min read
Passing
Passing.

Shana Ritter
Feb 20, 20141 min read
Passing
I stepped outside just before sunset to watch the graying sky, it had been raining on and off during most of this unseasonably warm day....

Shana Ritter
Feb 20, 20141 min read


Wild Card
This week’s weather goes something like this; snow, snow again, more snow, clear and warming, more warming, thunderstorms and tornado...

Shana Ritter
Feb 16, 20142 min read
Next Steps in the Writing Room
Next Steps in the Writing Room.

Shana Ritter
Feb 6, 20141 min read
Next Steps in the Writing Room
I have begun walking every morning again. Weather and schedule decide the route, but the commitment is to walk each day. And as often...

Shana Ritter
Feb 6, 20142 min read
The Monarchs
The Monarchs.

Shana Ritter
Jan 30, 20141 min read


The Monarchs
The migration of the monarchs is something I learned about in college – not from a science class- but in a poetry workshop where a young...

Shana Ritter
Jan 30, 20141 min read
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