Loving Harvey: some Christmas musings
I wrote and published this piece six years ago, shortly after the death of a close friend. I came across it this week, and honestly, I'd forgotten that I wrote [...]
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Dec, 2019
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Dec, 2019
grace: a surprise from the universe
This is a true story. It happened several years ago, when I was still working full time. It was early on a Saturday morning when I set out with a [...]
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Nov, 2019
A Prayer for Healing Division
I first wrote and published this piece several years ago when Barack Obama was president and John Boehner was speaker of the house, and we were in the midst of [...]
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Sep, 2019
Free Books
Years ago, I whimsically folded a few of my original poems into paper airplanes and flew them into the audience at a reading. People were amused. This happened long ago, [...]
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Aug, 2019
Happy Labor Day Weekend
I hope summer has been a time of rest, relaxation and fun for you and your loved ones. I suggest we carry that spirit of renewal with us, even as [...]
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Jul, 2019
The Poetry Bunny
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: tangy, tired of using words, accountant, electric lights, hooked on phonics, I found the strangest thing in my pocket “I found [...]
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Jun, 2019
New Book!
Greetings Blogosphere! I am excited to announce that I am releasing another book, a brief collection of short short stories (aka "flash fiction") and essays. It's called Wild Imaginings. Currently [...]
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Apr, 2019
God of the Starling, God of the Murmuration
I wrote this a year ago at Easter, long before any of us had heard of Corona Virus. During this extraordinary time in our lives and history, I wanted to [...]
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Nov, 2018
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, be aware of the grace that surrounds you.
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Nov, 2018
Knowing she was sad, eleven crows
Knowing she was sad, eleven crows arrived with gifts: delicate feathers chips of quartz and granite, short lengths of red and yellow yarn, crumpled bits of paper all colorful, some shiny with beef tallow others [...]