It’s poetry month and I am writing a poem a day with a small group of friends. We are posting up to a private shared page where we get to...

I think it’s the notion of perfection – or near perfection anyway that often holds me back from doing the best I can. I discovered the...

Woke to a dense fog this morning. Winter disappearing. There is no snow left on the ground. The freeze on the pond has become mist, all...

Wishing Time Away. #place #poetry #time #Writing

There are the true seasons and the hints of seasons. The day before yesterday I walked up the street in my brother’s Vancouver...

My big brother has Alzheimers. I will go to visit him next week and be part of his Alzheimers Walk team. He is an honoree and has been...

It is the coldest morning in a very long time. The dog is restless to go for a walk but I am not. I am fiddling with the fire in the new...

Time has slid into the New Year. It is December 30, the day before the turning and the sun has been a steady presence since just past...

Today I am up before the sun. Sitting at the kitchen table with hot dark tea and the only sounds the last clock in the house with hands...

For the last half hour I have been looking up the differences between memory and remembrance. I still cannot quite clearly articulate it....

Here’s what I love about giving a reading – it makes me look at my work in a different way. I search out themes and rhythms, timings,...

At sundown this evening Rosh Hashanah begins. Over the last five years I’ve given time in the preceding weeks to puzzling out how I want...

Today makes me proud to live in Indiana – yesterday the Indiana Supreme court found it unconstitutional to ban marriage between any two...

Today I have an overwhelming urge to do nothing. To sit and let the day pass by, the sky shift from pale cloudless blue to a morass of...

This is birthday week at my house – my daughter, spouse, and both my grandsons’ birthdays come one after the other – 2 on the same day-...

Fireflies. #Writing

Still Country. #Writing

Yesterday I visited La Sagrada Familia – the cathedral designed by Gaudi and still under construction. I have been four times in the last...

I stepped outside just before sunset to watch the graying sky, it had been raining on and off during most of this unseasonably warm day....

This week’s weather goes something like this; snow, snow again, more snow, clear and warming, more warming, thunderstorms and tornado...