Adrienne Cannon
Adrienne Gokhale Cannon lives in Springfield, VA. She has three grown children and two grandchildren. Her son lives in Baltimore, MD with his family; her two daughters and their families live nearby in the Virginia suburbs.
Adrienne taught Spanish and Italian for 30 years in local high schools and retired from the Prince George’s County, Maryland Public School System in 1996. Since that time she has been writing essays, playing the clarinet with community concert bands and volunteering as a tour guide at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC. She is author of Journey, a collection of essays, and a second collection, entitled Grace Notes. Credit below: The Washington Post
When Your Child Has A Child
Adrienne G. Cannon writes: It was not one of those odd renditions of a cone-shaped window, an indistinct sonogram that requires a certain faith to accept the doctor’s interpretation that “Yes, the baby is a girl.” It was a three dimensional rendering that showed her tiny serene face looking as if she were just biding her time until she could enter our world more »
Travel Notes; Tales to Tell
"Oh, didn’t the guide call you? They have come and gone out on tour." A scary feeling of being left behind in a strange city overtakes me and, trying not to panic, I ask him to call the guide for me on his mobile. more »
Change of Life
Come to think of it, though fast-paced and sometimes incomprehensible, I think I can embrace my life these days with pleasure. And modern woman that I am, I should start looking ahead at more changes that are sure to come. I am already contemplating what I will request for my next birthday — an IPhone or satellite radio reception in my car? more »
One Beat Behind
Adrienne Cannon writes, "9:30 AM. Saturday morning. Jazzercise class. The beat revves up as does the complexity of the moves. Uh-oh ... that old feeling has come back. Was it really three years ago that I began to lament my position of 'last in line?'" more »