A Nest of Little Lives
When you can't save your country, you have to start somewhere.| Amazement Seeker
When you can't save your country, you have to start somewhere.| Amazement Seeker
Holy Toledo! We dreamed of a city in Spain. We reminisce about a rust-belt diner.| Amazement Seeker
She loved the life that cancer was stealing. I'd given up on mine--until I embraced her example.| ronamaynard.substack.com
Friendship expands the heart of a child. When it's over, love needs somewhere to go.| Amazement Seeker
I thought I knew my mother's story. Then old letters revealed a chapter with a Stephen King vibe.| ronamaynard.substack.com
You're a grownup. Me too. Let's skip search and rescue and get to the fun stuff.| ronamaynard.substack.com
He was holding a streetcar captive with his rage against a Muslim. Someone should call him out. Why not me?| ronamaynard.substack.com
Hailed for "painting like a man," she delighted in her body--and proved it with her brush.| Amazement Seeker
Someone had lost that crisp new bill at my feet. Who should have it now?| ronamaynard.substack.com
Phyllis McGinley won fame as "the housewife poet." Her gifted daughter chose a different path.| ronamaynard.substack.com
Rivalry and resentment used to pull us apart. Love is stronger.| Amazement Seeker
One woman's confession sparks a reckoning about money, shame and identity| Amazement Seeker
My mother left me a necklace like no other. Who will wear it when I'm gone?| ronamaynard.substack.com
America's best speller? Nuts to that. I've been the most beloved speller on Broadway.| Amazement Seeker
Holden Caulfield stole my teenage heart. Sixty years on, he's not the same anguished rebel.| Amazement Seeker
There are moments in the life of a couple when one determined soul must do the hoping and believing for two.| Amazement Seeker
The friend you need most could be the quiet one who pours tea and listens.| ronamaynard.substack.com
Some people have a gift for happiness. The rest of us have to create it, one mindful moment at a time.| ronamaynard.substack.com
A tale of two artists--one famous, one a bitter unknown--and the bond jealousy couldn't kill| Amazement Seeker
When life as I had known it died, I held onto a story that set me on the path to vitality.| Amazement Seeker
When I can't make out the path, beauty lights my next step. Especially when someone shares it with love.| ronamaynard.substack.com
As my native land launches a trade war on my homeland, I've never been more proud to be Canadian.| ronamaynard.substack.com
