I Feared for My Safety When He Slammed the Door Grille
If you’ve been following my work, you’d know that I rarely talk about personal experiences. However, something so bizarre happened yesterday that I just have…
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Bougainvillea Snow
A Prose Poem about a Teenage Crush My heart soars like a kite on a windy day, As a silent hello escapes from your mouth.…
Remembering When I Was Dusty Around the Eyes
Names change colors when you are dusty around the eyes. Watch a gerenuk at sunset while listening to a Walkman. These two odd sentences are…
Missed Chances
As I sat in Sharon Historical Society meeting, a book launch for Black Gold, I thought of this piece I wrote as maybe a resignation…
Funeral in the Country
Miss drives to her friend’s father’s funeral. It’s familar territory, rolling hills, blue skies with puffy white clouds today. She’ll be on the edge of…
The Land Between 62 and 318
Follow the busy highway behind a truck, hardly ever a semi, though, unless the semi finds itself on an I-80 detour. The driver keeps a…
Story Teller
I watched “I Remember Momma,” with Irene Dunn, the other day. My mother told me how she loved it, but I really don’t remember watching…
The Hutch -Hearing Words from the Past
Dad called through the screen door, “Mollie, we’re here.” I scrambled over to the top of the stairs in the bi-level home. He and my…
Christmas Visiting
The week between Christmas and New Year’s brought the Christmas visiting season. The relatives came to our house for Christmas Day to see Grandma. An…
Reflections from Christmas 2014
Fifty three years of Christmases. I see twenty years ago, my mother-in-law holding new born Mary Ellen as I lead the Advent devotions with Katie.…