Just Being There…

Elizabeth Ricketson
3 min readMar 5, 2024

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Wind whipped. Noise twisted around the delicate yellow house. Rising temperatures have bookended yet another unusual winter. Spring is in the offing but possibly had already arrived. A new season…

The house was unusually quiet when I entered my daughter and son-in-law’s home. A busy couple of days for a young family and I was there to help. I arrived midmorning knowing they were already deep into their day. A running stroller…

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Elizabeth Ricketson

A graduate of Providence College with a BA in English, Elizabeth Ricketson has always had a love of literature and the fine arts.