Raining Down

January 30, 2013

Tonight the rain is pouring down on the deck outside my home’s office window. There’s a guest in the living …

A Place That No Longer Is

January 30, 2013

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 …

January 24, 2013

I just came across this post about the death of a child on the Brevity Blog and wanted to share …

January 24, 2013

Cameron stared at me out of huge brown eyes, magnified by little round glasses with thick lenses. His mouth was …

January 24, 2013

Tomorrow, Cohen turns ten—double digits. It is hard to believe that the sickly preemie whom we brought home from the …

January 24, 2013

I packed away tights with ruffled hineys And onesies that snap on the bottom And overalls Made of navy blue …

January 23, 2013

This was written the day after returning from our spring writing retreat at the beach. One of Carol’s prompts for …

January 2, 2013

The Christmas holiday officially ended for us today when our older daughter and her husband headed back to New York …

January 1, 2013

No tombstoning when placing stories on the newspaper page, I used to advise my students. So much language of death …