by Sharon Cooke | Aug 9, 2014
Summer vacation when your twelve is tanning and swimming, teen magazines and hanging out with your girlfriends and hoping your parents don’t sign you up for anything organized – like camp. I got all this (except camp, praise the Lord) and more. The ‘more’, was...
by Sharon Cooke | Jul 30, 2014
Part One: A month ago, I underwent a Total Right Knee Replacement. Not uncommon – it seems these days everyone you talk to has had something replaced or knows of someone who has. Not unique. I’m sure in some circles it would be considered trendy. Now...
by Sharon Cooke | Mar 18, 2014
I stood in my kitchen. Before me, the recipe and all the ingredients to bake a pie. My Gram made the most amazing pies and as a little girl I would stand between her arms and place my hands on hers, I would move in synch with her to the motion of the rolling pin. We’d...
by Sharon Cooke | Oct 7, 2013
Diane was a grown woman and she was in the midst of a grown-up crisis – a divorce. She reached in the pocket of her coat and pulled out a plastic Holstein cow. She smiled the type of smile that comes with a memory and dropped the cow in her handbag. “What’s with the...
by Sharon Cooke | Sep 8, 2013
Stratford in August, taking in a play. This year is “Waiting for Godot” A cast of four men who appear to have fallen on difficult times. Their lives are in the mode of waiting; waiting for Godot. Everything is put on hold and due to not being able to go forward, they...
by Sharon Cooke | Jul 13, 2013
Every Wednesday after my Aqua Fit Class I take a steam. You can see no one, but you can hear the voices of the women who are likewise enjoying the health effects of the steam. “I go to church, say my prayers and go about my day.” “When church is too busy, I can’t...
