Mary Desaulniers
Retirement or Re-routing?
When I was in my twenties, the idea of retirement seemed a death sentence. Anxious to establish a place for myself in the professional world, I found the prospect of unstructured time terrifying and wasteful.Now, in my fifties, I find the prospect...
Date Posted: December 26, 2005
A Case for Blotter Art
There are moments in our past that shape our vision. Going through my childhood photo albums, I catch a glimpse of Anna in the early grades, a quiet girl who, if she were still alive, does not know how even in grade 4, she was pointing the way to...
Date Posted: December 23, 2005
Luck is an Attitude
A friend of mine who started playing the dollar-a-week lottery 4 years ago seems to have a knack for winning. He has won at least 5 times, each win ranging from $200 to $1000.I can’t help but feel a bit envious.
Date Posted: December 11, 2005
The Power of Voice: Speaking from the Body
We are all familiar with the power of intention and the energy of thought. Just as important, if not more so, is the power of voice—the momentum that emerges in our voice when thought is aligned with belief and belief with the body.How do we...
Date Posted: December 01, 2005
We Are The Web: The Field And What It Means
I grew up in Hong Kong at a time when amahs( servants) were commonplace in most households. We had an amah who cooked, an amah who did the laundry and ironing, an amah who looked after the children.
Date Posted: December 01, 2005
Memory and Menopause
Last week I did it again—made a trip to deposit a check at our local bank only to discover once I got there, that my check was nowhere to be found. Hadn’t I tucked it inside one of the pockets of my purse?
Date Posted: December 01, 2005
Can Motherhood Make You Smarter?
It was not too long ago that the I.Q. test was a routinely administered exercise in elementary and secondary schools. At that time (late seventies and early eighties), schools placed great faith in these magic numbers.
Date Posted: December 01, 2005
You Are What You Feel
When Wordsworth described the Romantic mind as an ”Orphean lyre” played upon by the wind, he used an image that struck a chord in the Romantic Imagination, an image that unleashed a century of political, literary and social rebellion.Why...
Date Posted: November 28, 2005
Turning 50
I remember turning 50 with the usual fear and denial that accompany those of us who could not understand how quickly the years have sped by. Am I really turning 50 now? What happened?And with that came a sense of urgency—there was not much time...
Date Posted: November 18, 2005
The Midas Story Revisited
King Midas made a wish that everything he touched would turn to gold. The wish was granted him with bitter irony: he touched his daughter whom he loved more than his life and she turned into solid gold—flesh turned stone.We might say that the...
Date Posted: October 28, 2005
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