I wake to the popping sounds of lights and electric objects flickering on and off. A surge of volts trying desperately to come to life. Then nothing. Stumbling to get my footing in the darkness, I realize my watch has a flashlight. Who would have imagined 30 years ago [...]
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant. —Henry David Thoreau Others’ Eyes I like to think I have my biases reigned in, tucked neatly in my pocket, and hidden from my thinking and action. No matter how hard I [...]
Every morning, I read. I venture into newsletters, writer websites, news, and literary offerings. I meander the expanse of words on the internet. Why? Feeding the Muse I’m searching for the glint of an idea, a combustible fragment eager to set ablaze my Muse. What I find exuberates me [...]
I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too?” —Emily Dickinson Who am I? I sat on a zoom call of unlikely poets. Analysts, field inspectors, payroll, and human resource professionals from different departments of a state agency gathered together with only one purpose. Each came with [...]
The leaves fall. A cool breeze offers relief from the last hot days of lingering summer. Every year, without fail, we follow this cycle of change, hardly noticing the nuance of each new winter, spring, summer, and fall. Some winters come with snow (a rarity in Southeast Texas) or temperatures [...]
Welcome to Part II, 30 Days of 30 Poems Year after year, I started with good intentions to complete 30 poems in April. I haven't accomplished that goal, yet... Perhaps—2022 is the year! Share, Comment, and Maybe a Leave a Poem I always appreciate hearing from you, and also [...]
Welcome to Part I, 30 Days of 30 Poems Year after year, I started with good intentions to complete 30 poems in April. I haven't accomplished that goal, yet... Perhaps—2022 is the year! Share, Comment, and Maybe a Leave a Poem I always appreciate hearing from you, and also [...]
“It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.” —Carol Anne Duffy Nature holds many fascinations, like the moon that revolves around the earth that revolves around the sun within a galaxy among known and unknown galaxies. When, where, how did the music of a universe begin, and what undisclosed [...]
A Six-Word Photo Story No one told me—wear red. . . . I stood waiting while she decided where to sit hoping to capture her simple flair and charm in the streaming light. But she chose to quietly pose in front of the gray wall and sit quietly on [...]
The very thought of doing nothing runs counter to everything my dad taught me. His favorite admonition when we looked too idle always began with, “Are just going to sit around when there is work to be done?” Maybe that’s why Jenny O’Dell’s How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention [...]
