“Do you want to be healed?” he asked. He smelled like cinnamon and pepper and cut through our stink, all of us unwashed, honey pots next to us. Yes, his…
Recently I went to Alan’s celebration of life and wish I’d spoken. I did not know him as a proud horse show dad, watching his daughter ride her pony over…
We stand still. The water cupping the sunlight in the sea hurt our eyes. We’d seen the miracles in Egypt–the bloody water, the giant hail, the locusts, the darkness. We…
On New Year’s day, I walked into a cloud that settled on the neighbor’s field, now cleared of corn. I could not gaze to the silver grain bins, like unlabeled…
It was last minute, but we decided to help someone from church move from a condo to a tiny apartment in an assisted living facility so she could be near…
I thought you could use something to cheer you up after this hard American week. So here’s a photo essay. Sometimes a feather lands in a bucket And sometimes it…
Well, I meant to post a few weeks ago, but I had two big projects that needed my writing time, so I put this off until now. I hope to…
We said goodbye to Tessie (Mariposa Cirsti) on June 19, 2021. (She was born May 25, 2003.) She was my spiritual warhorse, a mare I brought into my life because…
The WNIJ Perspective In the winter, the barn doors stick. It’s as though the ground grows up and grabs the bottoms, but it’s the sun melting snow on the roof…