We Are Older Now

On our first trip to Europe, some of us fell in love with Paris:  the art, the architecture, the tiny cafes where you could sit drinking coffee and eating bread and cheese all afternoon.   Lillian took up smoking short brown cigarettes and spent hours jotting in her journal.  Petra teased that Lillian was talking on a Gertrude Stein … Continue reading We Are Older Now

How to Find the Muse

Welcome to April!  It’s National Poetry Month! I started writing poetry nearly fifty years ago, when I was in college.  I started getting published when I was in my 20s, learning to make my way in the world outside my parents’ house.  My poetry and I were young together. Poetry for me was short, intense … Continue reading How to Find the Muse