May 31, 2021RememberingIt’s Memorial Day weekend. Words can be read on marquees in front of businesses to remind us to not forget those who fought and died for...
May 24, 2021Yard Art? or Yard Sale? A yard sale could be defined as an informal event for the sale of used goods. It usually happens in someone’s yard. No dress code. It can...
May 17, 2021The Vietnam Traveling Wall This Traveling Memorial came to Mountain Home, Arkansas, several years ago. My husband and I went to the designated location. What can I...
May 10, 2021Mama's DayI wrote this a few days before Mother's Day. My birthday falls in the month of May, but it never upstages Mother's Day. Never has, never...
May 3, 2021Beyond the NameThe hospital parking lot in our small town is filled with the wailing of a fire engine, ambulance, police siren. You can imagine. The...
Apr 26, 2021My Gift to YouHappy to share my poem “Bar of Soap” with you! It’s a prose poem, and it landed in the first edition of inScribe: Journal of Creative...
Apr 19, 2021HopeI am fond of things with feathers. So fond of them that I feed them, listen to them, watch them. And happily, I am not alone in this...
Apr 12, 2021BeautyI’m seeing bright scarves of white flowers hanging on trees. It has a bridal appearance—to me, it looks like scarf upon scarf of white...
Apr 5, 2021Easter Sunday, April 2021Oh, my friend. Do you know that it’s possible to be so full that you know, for sure, that your words don’t matter much? I thought my...
Mar 29, 2021EmptyAn author does not always know why he or she writes on a certain topic. I’ve heard so many say, “My muse guided me, so here I am.”...