Author: sharonafoley

I continue my search for a living kidney donor.  If you are inclined to be a donor for me, please email me and/or call the RI Hospital Kidney Transplant Center at 401-440-8562.   My poem, Elegy for My Brother in memory of my brother is recently published in Paterson Literary Review, Issue 51, 2023, p. 150.  […]

If by chance it is your calling to be a kidney donor, go to my website and call the RI Hospital Kidney Transplant Center at 401-440-8562. Happy Birthday today to my brother, Bill; my uncle Len Moreau, and my niece Jane.  I imagine Bill and Len feasting in heaven today and Jane, still tethered here, […]

I continue to search for someone who can be a kidney donor for me.  If you feel called to be a kidney donor, please visit my website and call RI Hospital Kidney Transplant Center at 401-444-8562. May is Mental Health Awareness Month.  One of the best mental hygiene strategies is to be aware of your […]

DIARY   Monday after Easter, April Today is the real Easter morning.  Yesterday was overcast and chilly.  This morning is still, warm, newly awakened.  One walks out into it like a flower just opened.             The world sounds like spring, like summer, this morning.  So still, so perfect, so whole is the morning that one can […]

I’m reaching high to have a preemptive kidney transplant, and I’m searching for a living kidney donor.  If you can consider being a donor, go to my website:  https://sharonneedsakidney.org and call the Rhode Island Hospital Transplant Team at 401-444-8562.    According to the      National Kidney Foundation, a preemptive kidney transplant is the preferred method of transplant […]

As a school social worker in the East Greenwich Public Schools, I developed a program for early elementary school children that I called Relax and Focus.   I did a series of lessons in each first grade classroom, reading stories on social-emotional themes, and introducing words to help the children describe their feeling states.   I also […]

Happy St. Valentine’s Day I borrow the words of John O’Donohue in his poem For Eros “May the words of love Reach you and fluster Your held self The way a silhouette of breeze Excites a meadow.” Be with me in my search to find a living kidney donor. Visit my website:  https://sharonneedsakidney.org

I love to eat and enjoy cooking with vegetables, fruits, and lean meats.  Over the years, I’ve adjusted my diet several times to accommodate my food sensitivities and to address a variety of minor health issues with a nutritional intervention.  Mark Mincolla, PhD, a nutritionist, has guided me on this path of healthy eating.  When […]

Today we celebrate St. Brigid a woman who played a critical role in Irish history.  Her feast day marks the end of the darkness of winter and heralds the new season of hope and growth.  Along with St. Patrick, Brigid is the co-patroness of Ireland.  She is also the patron saint of poets and is […]

Frederick Buechner in his memoir The Sacred Journey says that God speaks to us in our personal lives and he believes that “(his) life and the lives of everyone who has ever lived, or will ever live, as not journeys through time but as sacred journeys.”   I’m reminded that journeys often have unexpected happenings that […]