Florita
Written with my Thursday night group with the prompts: Therese is gone, those people, toe the line, flourish, she could see the person she was, her mother didn’t like her, [...]
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Oct, 2022
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Sep, 2022
Manna
Mama’s family never could afford to send her to college. From as far back as I can remember, she promised it would be different for me. “You are smart and [...]
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Sep, 2022
Never Be Robbie
Never Be Robbie Written with my Thursday night writing group with the prompts: he died ten years ago, I just want to win something, surrounded by her men, don’t get [...]
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Apr, 2022
The Flint Girls Go To A Fire
This is a poem I wrote a few years back for my mother and her sisters. It's a bit of a ramble, but they all seemed to like it. My [...]
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Nov, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving Week!
If you and your loved ones are safe and healthy this year, then you have reason to be thankful. Please do all you can to stay that way! The safest thing [...]
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May, 2020
Sheltering-in-Place, part 2
Greetings to everyone who is sheltering in place as I am. How are you? I am fine. There are many things we could complain about—and if that’s what you want [...]
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Dec, 2019
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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May, 2019
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (a book review)
Warning: spoilers ahead. I’ll wave a red flag when we get close, but stay alert. This book made me very sad. I don’t know why I’m surprised, it’s right there [...]
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May, 2019
Disappearing
Written with my Thursday Writing Group with the prompts: “59 miles,” she said, secret room filled with jasmine and. . ., never saying, this is going to be one of [...]
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Apr, 2019
The Humor of Everyday Life
Prompts: Still a vigorous man, three doors where your life is headed, work clothes come off, modern attachments, the French was on the boards, ride my indoor bike, mosaics with [...]