FICTION I AM 5 Jun 20185 Jun 2018 As a straight white woman of privilege. I declare that until the Russian Agent is removed from OUR White House by any means: I am a Muslim, I am Black, I…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… Forgiveness 9 May 2018 How do you ask forgiveness when you don't believe you were entirely wrong when the other won't meet, talk with you when the other claims "I won't say because I…
FICTION Lawrence Ferlinghetti 17 Apr 2018 Lawrence Ferlinghetti decades ago wrote and it gives me chills to read it today: “Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… GROWING OLDER 28 Mar 2018 When do we realize how old we have become Is it when we see the deep lines etched on our face the dullness of hearing and eyesight When the once…
FICTION Traveler On the Backroads 27 Mar 2018 Traveler On the Backroads I can hear the sun touch the water's edge as daytime turns to dusk in that magic moment before evening falls and the day is spent .…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… First Day of Spring 20 Mar 2018 The first day of Spring and all its promises... Leaning against the window frame watching the sun come up It rises gently as I drink from my emptying coffee cup…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… Tonight I Cried 17 Mar 2018 Tonight I totally lost all semblance of strength and just burst into tears. Not a day goes by I don't think of my daughter, it's seven years and the pan is…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… LOST TIME 11 Mar 2018 The first day of Daylight Savings Time (DST), it is a dark, gloomy, cloudy day feeling like winter more than a nearness of Spring. I had hoped for a bright…
© Copyright 2018, All Rights Reserved… Why The Best… 3 Mar 2018 We place our hearts in the hard frozen ground shedding tears over the coffin turning them to icicles to melt and flow again, as they will time and again from this…
Mental WEARINESS 21 Feb 2018 I feel the weariness of my years, reflection reveals the wrinkles, the gray, the tears Dull pain in the eyes, eyes with sparkle washed away like the tide washing sand…