This weekend we discovered a new favorite bookstore—you know the type: stone walls, uneven floor, close shelves requiring you to accidentally bump the person...

Like by A. E. Stallings Farrar, Straus, & Giroux 2018 There’s just a whole lot to love about this particular book of poems by A. E. Stallings. Stallings is w...

Three in the morning wasn’t his typical time to sit on the lawn. Dew heavy trouser legs chilling his ankles and what had to be the same two mosquitoes circli...

We tucked in a brisk hike this morning, sneaking it into our schedules before resuming our appointments for the day. If we were going to go, it had to be now...

And what do I see When time passes swiftly And runs out of sand how to penetrate that dark scary forest And find my way through the briers, Reaching out to g...

Grandma Marilyn Ward, April 1927-April 2018 When cherry blossoms fluttered, Falling gently down, Unloosing hold on living limb To spin, and spin, and spin Th...

Finding some lost thing is a paradise all its own. When that leather wallet worn smooth as a burro's back, ambles shyly into its old pocket, or when those Ma...

For the cherry blossom tourist season in my home, Washington, D.C. Pink-toned blossoms can arrest Clicking heels on sidewalk gray. Season open: springtime’s ...

Strawberry red Light magenta Neon pink Violet Indigo purple Rose clair Deep indigo Iris blue Florescent pink Plum Dioxazine Purple Brilliant purple Recently ...

Coke-can red and center stage, the twelve-string electric guitar shined, impatient for its player to take the stage. Smoke eddied incense-like around the neo...

I revere footnotes They are Matthew Chapter One—the begetting passage-- The list of names no one can pronounce --- names given – It reads like a footnote! Zo...

Three weeks ago, a little bird clung perilously to the uppermost twig of an enormous tree outside my small ordinary window, a tiny black etching against the ...