Sandra Bashaw

Dictionaries and encyclopedias provide two basic definitions of the word, magic.   One: According to Britannica,  the colloquial...

It was a solitary Christmas for me. I had split up with my husband, and I was living in a furnished apartment in Albuquerque, NM in 1978....

In January of 2008, a half-grown tuxedo cat started hanging around our house. He was friendly. For a week or so we'd talk to him and give...

Last night I watched a bit of news coverage of the celebration of the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral de Paris. I'm not Catholic,...

I felt like yesterday's post was just too short, so I decided to post the lyric to my most recent song. You can hear it on my website...

I took ballet lessons when I was four years old. My mom remembered that I easily memorized the sequences. She also remembered that during...

Betrayal: “the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict...

The girl lived in a sweet little house near the end of a cul-de-sac in a peaceful neighborhood full of old growth trees. She had filled...

I am grateful for a lot of things. I have a wonderful husband, a lovely daughter, a fab grandchild. We live in a little house full of art...

Dear Friends, I'm having a hard time writing to you today. Having a hard time time deciding what to say and I don't know why. OK, I've...

Samhain (or, Halloween or El Dia de los Muertos) approaches, and I'm thinking about spirits and ghosts. And while there are the spirits...

I WROTE A NOVEL??? Hello Friends. As mentioned before, I've been a musician all my life, and a songwriter. My love of the...

Etymology: Middle English enspire, from Old French inspirer, from Latin inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’ from in- ‘into’ + spirare...

For most of my life I've been, well . . . reserved. An introvert, really. But as I've reached a certain age, I feel it's time to write...