Raining Down
Tonight the rain is pouring down on the deck outside my home’s office window. There’s a guest in the living …
Monthly Archives: January 2013
A Place That No Longer Is
From a prompt given by Carol at a spring mountain retreat in Roaring Gap Home…my first one…it’s still there…yet it is …
What We Tell Others . . . and More
I just came across this post about the death of a child on the Brevity Blog and wanted to share …
CRAZY
Cameron stared at me out of huge brown eyes, magnified by little round glasses with thick lenses. His mouth was …
Live
Tomorrow, Cohen turns ten—double digits. It is hard to believe that the sickly preemie whom we brought home from the …
I Packed Away
I packed away tights with ruffled hineys And onesies that snap on the bottom And overalls Made of navy blue …
Sharing a Room
From the time I can remember, my mom has talked about sharing a room with her little sister, incidentally my …
Don’t Come Today
This was written the day after returning from our spring writing retreat at the beach. One of Carol’s prompts for …
Holiday Dimmed
The Christmas holiday officially ended for us today when our older daughter and her husband headed back to New York …
Tombstones: “It breaks the heart/ that stone holds/ what time let go.”
No tombstoning when placing stories on the newspaper page, I used to advise my students. So much language of death …
