by Abbe Rolnick | Mar 26, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
While spring approaches, I find myself still caught in winter. My body and mind have retreated into thoughtful repose. Cerebral with embedded worries from everyday concerns to that of worldly consequences. Politics and proclamations bombard the...
by Abbe Rolnick | Feb 26, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
I just returned from three weeks of roaming the streets of Italy. In truth I meandered in the past: relived the danger, power, and pain of the gladiators at the Coliseum. I felt for the first time the weight and influence of Vatican City, a world filled with...
by Abbe Rolnick | Jan 29, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations January 2025 Nothing is Everything It’s taken a while for me to pull together a newsletter in January for lack of anything new to say. Clouds and rain fill the first week of this new year and I’m awash with the effort . Thankfully, words come...
by Abbe Rolnick | Dec 18, 2024 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations: Storyboard of Crazy Thoughts After releasing my new novel, The Underpainting, to the world ( yes, a bookstore in Germany bought it as well as another one in England) my mind is free to wander. When I don’t have a plotline or clarity on my next...
by Abbe Rolnick | Nov 20, 2024 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations November 2024: I Refuse to Bow I’ve learned that no matter what you believe, act on , or profess, rejection and fear lie in waiting. Our country has voted in another president. Many are cheering and many are disillusioned. We all...
by Abbe Rolnick | Oct 23, 2024 | Abbe's Ruminations
As the world continues with its uncompromising wars in Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine, Sudan, and more, I’ve realized embedded in my recent travels to Bolivia and Columbia that: Time doesn’t heal but allows the heart to open wider and reveal the secrets...
