by Abbe Rolnick | Sep 24, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations September 2025 Some of us come with enate abilities. Born with skills noted at birth—a destroyer who takes apart things and reassembles, a flighty child who dances to music and sings songs, the ones who take playdough and create...
by Abbe Rolnick | Jul 16, 2025 | Abbe's Notes, Abbe's Ruminations
The Magical Garden of Life—you never know what you’ll reap Abbe’s Ruminations July 2025 I no longer own a plot of land to seed a soil-based garden. I miss my fresh lettuce, those tender sweet peas as they form on traveling vines. Or the beets that mature...
by Abbe Rolnick | Jun 18, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
This morning at precisely 5:45 am, after a forty- minute swim, I popped out of the pool. Content that the swimmer in the next lane, finished as well. He is my morning buddy; one I hardly know. Once every three or four months, our swims are...
by Abbe Rolnick | May 11, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Generations of Motherhood : Abbe’s Ruminations May 2025 I didn’t intend to write about Mother’s Day, and in fact my thoughts are more about Grandparents—the wonderful next step in our lives. Once again, I participated in my two grand-daughter’s school event. I...
by Abbe Rolnick | Apr 23, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Desert Jewels- Recent Memories I’ve been here before, in the desert of which some say is desolate with its muted beiges, browns, and shadowy hills. I’m struck by silhouettes, spikes, prickly cactus with blooms so vibrant that the sun shines through. Those who...
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...
