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Thinking About the 4th of July
Photo by Meadow Marie on Unsplash On July 5 th , I went to the Rokeby Museum to their annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’...


Thinking about banned words
So much has happened in the first few months of the return of the Trump administration, much of it angering, troubling, and / or...


Wondering
Photo by srinivas bandari on Unsplash I'm listening to the rain patter against my bedroom window. The clouds have lingered for two days,...


Good Morning!
raju-bhupatiraju-Ke11c4ZsG6E-unsplash.jpg I’ve been reading Craig Johnson books these past few days. This morning, in the midst of...


Thinking about ...
Yesterday I stood outside the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, listening to a person describe her forays into creating a...


Nourishing Practices
Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash Meditation is one of the few practices that I've maintained for consecutive years. Yoga is another...


A beautiful children's book!
One of my fun jobs as a volunteer at the Lawrence Memorial Library is "processing" books. This entails making jackets (paper and...


My Latest Ways of Seeing Column
My latest Ways of Seeing Column: "What I've been reading" Three years ago, I joined Goodreads’ annual reading challenge. Since then, I’ve...


Who Needs Pockets?
Shuffling through my nightwear, I tossed aside several bottoms simply because they don't have pockets. Now, you'd think that since it's...


Stunning Music!
Recently, I received a newsletter that was totally uninteresting except for a bit of information that was worth noting: praise for...


Meditations - First Drafts
I wanted to give my friends something on my birthday, today, September 12th. Happy Tuesday!


Enjoy the Reading!
I hope you enjoy hearing me read, "Snapshots of the Wind": https://static.wixstatic.com/mp3/f1d3cb_dc3e6e62c9dd427ca8bc386238c0a99c.m4a...
Recently Published Poems
Two of my poems were recently published in The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative: Lifting the Veil (from my collection, Snapshots of the Wind)...


Showing up matters
When I was studying at Bennington College's MFA Writing Seminars, faculty mentor David Lehman, urged students to write a poem a day. As...
Read my short story on Vita Poetica
"There Should Be Angels" appears in the Autumn 2022 issue of Vita Poetica, along with my reading of the story....
Interview on Public Access
Linda Quinlan, of all things LGBTQ, interviewed me about my poetry collection, Snapshots of the Wind. My interview begins at 24 minute...


My Book of Poems
Just received copies of my collection of poetry, Snapshots of The Wind. As you can see, I'm happy to have completed this project! To...


What I'm Reading Now
In the past year or so, I've begun reading again, by choice. As a faculty member, I read all the time, but mostly things that I am...
My Latest Column
My latest Ways of Seeing column.https://www.addisonindependent.com/.../ways-of-seeing.../
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