by Janis Clark | Jul 26, 2022 | Gypsy
Food has always been important to me. Happiness is sitting together around any table sharing a meal and stories. A glass of wine, fresh water, coffee to linger, talking through the night. My mother taught me when someone was ill, take them a pot of soup, because a...
by Janis Clark | May 4, 2020 | Gypsy
Bruce and I have been self-isolating in our apartment since March 16, two days before Governor Jay Inslee ordered Washingtonians to stay at home after the coronavirus outbreak shut down Seattle. Fifty days and counting. The stay-at-home order will be lifted at the end...
by Janis Clark | Jan 30, 2020 | Gypsy
The bluest skies you’ve ever seen are in Seattle, and the hills the greenest green…Perry Como, 1969, Seattle* It’s been a year since we left Montana and moved to Seattle. Everything is different here, including the sky. Our Idaho-born neighbor told us that the trouble...
by Janis Clark | Dec 12, 2019 | Gypsy
I published my book Planets & Passages, Tales of a Blacktop Gypsy late November 2018. My best friend, Mary Lawlor O’Hara, telephoned me on my birthday, as she always did, one week after publication. She wasn’t feeling well. In fact, she had just had a heart...
by Janis Clark | Nov 1, 2019 | Gypsy
The house on the hill stands empty, her windows dark, save one, the red and golden stained-glass cactus rose, glowing in late-day autumn sun. Twenty-seven years, as the first deep snow of winter fell, we moved into our hand-built house on the hill. There was no glass...
by Janis Clark | Sep 27, 2019 | Gypsy
Did you know that June 16th is National Cannoli Day? I didn’t know it either and I’m 100% Italian American. Or at least I thought I was until DNA testing showed I am Middle Eastern too, with some ancient Saracen thrown in. While researching an article I was writing...
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