It's Been A While: One thing about maintaining a blog is that you've got to maintain it. I've not been very good about doing that! Yet, I have been writing: Poems, essays, pieces in Addy Indy's Ways of Seeing column, daily journals. Writing starts my mornings and shapes my days. Publishing - as in posting to this blog - that's been an issue. Now that I have a summer break from reading other people's writing, I'll see if I can create a new habit. *** Did You Ever Wonder? I fre

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...

A moment of Joy, seeing the golden leaves in the trees circling my home. Every fall, I worry so much about winter that the beautiful fall...