I’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Thank you for sitting with me as I’ve told you my stories this year. The following is what I imagine it…
When I step into these dark nights, I admire how Orion throws a thigh over the barn roof, our place dark but all around a ring of lights, neighbors I…
Combines dance, hand to shoulder, waltzing with grain carts big as houses through fields, their song like water pouring. They hand their grain to semis to haul to bins that…
The grief sat like a bubble in my chest, stuck, not working it’s way out in tears. They came with great heaves when I sat on my rock in the…
Some mornings I wake up afraid. Often I dream of trying to pack my stuff with no room in the car. My last dream with this theme was about making…
On a corner in Cherry Valley, stand two giant skeletons. For this season they are dressed in formal clothes, to celebrate their day, All Hallow’s Eve, a day that promotes…
In a recent newsletter, Jonathan Pageau says, “One of the difficulties in thinking symbolically, and one which will one day make you suffer, I promise you, is the capacity to perceive…
Once I made the appointment with TAILS ,our local spay and neuter clinic, for Mama cat I waited until the day before we had to take her to the clinic…
I didn’t know I was going to pitch my email notebooks until Bruce said he was going to burn the brush pile because the wind was from the right direction,…