by Ethel Lee-Miller | Oct 21, 2018 | Writing
What makes a relationship endure? My husband and I have been together for 29 years. He’s changed from being Hank, this really neat guy, to my friend, sweetheart, true north and National Treasure. I’m sure I’ve changed too. We have influenced each...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Dec 5, 2017 | Writing
When was the last time you got hugged more than 54 times in a day? I’m a hugger and was completely in my element when we recently visited a local school in Kauai. Let me start at the beginning. KIDS Kids are amazing! Whether they’re pre-schoolers, wiggly giggly...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Sep 4, 2017 | Writing
Now that I’ve “graduated” from my Improv 101 class, I’m even more into play and observing people. When I was a teaching, we always said that play was the “work” of young children. The championship titleholders for play and being in the moment are still...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Aug 27, 2017 | Writing
I was only going to read for a “little while.” Yellow Crocus came to me from my friend’s richly overstocked bookshelves. Taking a break in my office I moved to my reading chair. Twice before I had looked at the book and put it back. But yesterday was...
by Ethel Lee-Miller | Aug 16, 2017 | Writing
I just spent a week in California visiting with my twin sister. If you read my memoir Thinking of Miller Place, you know her as Finn. It’s been quite a few years, well decades actually, since we realized on a really deep level that we were and always will be...