Seeing Brightly
It is said that ancient mariners, when wanting to view one particular star more clearly, knew to look slightly off to the side of that...
Letter to a Dear Young Friend
Dear one, your beauty and spirit are extraordinary; your young lithe body and creative mind are a wonder. In movement, as dance or karate ...
Sometimes, my best effort fails
It looked so perfect. It was so perfect! I’d thought I would surprise my husband and (ugh) stack all of the firewood in the pile at the...
Juxtaposition: New upon old, suddenly
Houses in this neighborhood are not supposed to burn to the ground. They don’t burn at all. This is a nice neighborhood, with nice...
My father loved lupines
My father loved lupines. They grew in Scotland where we lived for a few years, wild, when I was a teen. Perhaps they reminded him of that...
