My Year of Magical Thinking

They tell me everyone grieves in her own way.  During my husband’s illness with pancreatic cancer I learned that a friend from graduate school had lost his son Sam to a car accident.  Though it had been many years since we had spoken, my heart sank. I knew that John dearly loved his children as…

Falling in Love with Spanish Guitar Music

“If music be the food of love, play on.” –William Shakespeare Earlier this month I attended a concert of Los Romeros, the “Royal Family of the Guitar.” They played a lovely concert that included Angel Romero as a guest. I first heard them nineteen years ago on what turned out to be my first date…

Worthy of a Henry

This was originally penned in 2010, and revised for The Engineers’ Daughter, I wrote this story and posted it on my company’s social media site. As I hung up the phone with Salem, my friend and colleague, the beginning of a notion stirred in my mind. His year had been hard–full of personal loss–and with…