by Carol Jane Morrison | Jan 19, 2022 | Essays, The Biblio File
I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW Since the age of twelve, I’ve been nearly legally blind and have worn glasses or contacts. After recent cataract surgery, I now have 20/20 vision and the relief that, during my recovery, my older ego allowed me to go out in public without the eye...
by Carol Jane Morrison | Oct 22, 2021 | Essays, The Biblio File
FANTA-SEE? The other day, noonish, when Ed and I were sitting quietly on our couch, he said, “Your lips are moving and your brow is furrowed. Who are you talking to?” I flushed, I’m sure, embarrassed, and started to say, “Nobody,” but I knew Ed wouldn’t buy it. I’ve...
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 attitude to...
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 days...
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...
