by Jerri Dell | Feb 22, 2023 | Books, Family, Friends, Poetry, Uncategorized
A year ago, I posted a short piece “The Ghost of Edna St. Vincent Millay” in honor of Millay’s 130th birthday. In it I described the extraordinary influence she and her poetry had on my young self. What I didn’t mention was the influence she has continued... 
by Jerri Dell | Jun 1, 2022 | Dogs, Family, Friends, Living Abroad, Travel
On a warm day in Western Maryland about fifteen years ago, my husband Terry,our friends Meg and Dave and I decided to eat outdoors at the Rocky Gap Resort. Chatting on our way from Dave’s car to the lobby, we were surprised to see dozens of dogs racing about... 
by Jerri Dell | Mar 29, 2022 | Art, Family, Living Abroad, Memoir, Travel
Azulejo is a lovely Portuguese word that rolls off the tongue in a way that its English translation “tile” just doesn’t. But in Portugal the azulejo is much more than a tile, it is iconic of Portuguese culture. For centuries, azulejos have embellished ... 
by Jerri Dell | Feb 22, 2022 | Books, Family, Poetry
One hundred and thirty years ago today Edna St. Vincent Millay – a remarkable, sometimes scandalous, and always brilliant poet, was born in Rockland, Maine. Twenty-five years later she moved to Greenwich Village, where she and my grandfather Floyd Dell – a... 
by Jerri Dell | Oct 10, 2021 | Art, Books, Family, Memoir
A week before I returned to our house in Portugal, USPS brought me the box I’d been eagerly awaiting for weeks. Not a large box, but big enough to hold several Advance Reading Copies of my book– Expecting the World –a memoir of the thirty years I worked... 
by Jerri Dell | Sep 19, 2021 | Family
It’s been over a year now since the Obenchain fire ripped through my son’s property in Eagle Point, Oregon. A year since the fire took down his shop, the chicken coop, the water pump, the power lines. A year since a couple of very kind strangers arrived with two...
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