by Abbe Rolnick | Oct 25, 2025 | Abbe's Ruminations
Abbe’s Ruminations October 2025 No Lemonade — Lemons Drops- Coffee Nuggets – I’ve never liked the taste of sweet lemonade. The fruit was enough. I know the saying, the one where you make something positive from something negative, but I object—a fallacy...
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 | Aug 20, 2025 | Abbe's Notes
Travel In Place Abbe’s Ruminations August 2025 I believe that travel is an emotional journey. I don’t have to go far to experience the awe of discovery. This week I traveled with my sister and brother-in-law to the Filson Manufacturing Plant, in the basement of the...
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 | 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...
