Archive - A thousand fibers

Hope fashioned from pipe cleaners and yarn, and a call for action.

The day after the presidential debate, I took a walk with my daughter and a dear friend around the park I adore as though it were a family member.

Jun 29 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

May 2024

Umbilical cord, apron strings, heartstrings.

Is there any connection more foundational than our first?

May 23 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

I love you, Giant Strawberry.

Parenting from both sides now.

May 8 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

April 2024

How many Archies are out there?

So many of us want connection, but then we get in our own way.

Apr 22 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

Adventures in Italy, part uno.

What a postcard, a 500-year old horse race and two Italians taught me about community.

Apr 11 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

To my dad on his 80th birthday.

Wish you were here.

Apr 4 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

March 2024

How do we reconnect with who we once were?

And can it help us be more grateful for who we’ve become?

Mar 20 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

At least one of us is going to make it.

“I want you to know that I am proud of you and pleased that you are becoming what I’ve only dreamed of becoming, a writer,” my dad wrote me once. “At…

Mar 13 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

Jackie paid for my bagels today.

My family had an appointment early this morning and on my way home I could feel the car steering itself toward the bagel shop.

Mar 11 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

I'd like to connect with you through a thousand fibers.

In a hyper-connected world, we are lonelier than ever.

Mar 7 •

Geralyn Broder Murray

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