Tell Me What You Would Have Told Me
One year ago this book released into a pandemic and the most consequential election in modern times. Remember how nervous and weary so many of us were [...]
Here Is an Idea for Your Saturday
This post is dedicated to the stranger I recently encountered, sitting on a park bench, next to a community garden, reading a book in the sunshine. I am lucky [...]
I Want to Throw a Huge Party
Yesterday I walked up the brick walkway from my little writing shed to find that a small cardboard box had been placed outside our door—kind of decoratively [...]
On ignoring the news for a minute
A couple of days ago, I was the fortunate recipient of a songbird's wakeup call. Our family calendar and the texting app on my phone had my [...]
Thank goodness for bookstores
Look what I stumbled upon today at Literati Bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, a little reminder of what fear can cause and why we need to be [...]
Garden as Artist’s Studio, Workshop as Garden
Much as I embrace No Attachment (and I have posted little signs above my desk that remind me of that), I feel that writing poems, indeed making [...]