
In December my 86-year-old mother [...]
In December my 86-year-old mother [...]
Winter in California.
Chilly winter [...]
Vision Quest: A sacred rite [...]
For my friend, Robin
My friend [...]
A Mother’s Work Is Never [...]
The golden leaves of the [...]
Sometimes we leave the house [...]
Up ahead of me,
an [...]
Before GPS, road signs or [...]
When we were little kids [...]
This week I saw a [...]
Two elderly women board
the [...]
In our former home, I [...]
While out walking, I saw [...]
For all the many years [...]
For C.
Reluctantly, our [...]
On Sunday night
my psychiatrist [...]
I awake in early light [...]
Geese don’t feed their nestlings [...]
I am taking a shortcut [...]
Revelation! [...]
For a long time I [...]
The earth can quake…
The [...]
After watching my new neighbor [...]
For the last 20 or [...]
Sometimes in the evening
I [...]
When my husband showed me
the [...]
Spoons, knives, and forks
gleaming [...]
What? No poem? [...]
Once a chaste and faithful wife [...]
I am interested in the strange beauty of brokenness, in transforming possibility in difficult times, in how we heal even when we can’t get better, in the alchemy of surrender, in the interplay of light and shadow, in the bounty of everyday wonders, in the gift of laughter…and writing about it, all and everything.