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23Mar, 2021

Love Letter to My Heart

My heart, dear heart, sweet, gentle heart. I wish you were healthy and I’m grateful that despite your challenges, you’re still here. My heart, broken so many times yet not [...]

7Feb, 2021

Life On A Limb

  Life on a Limb   Life is precarious, like living on the slender limb of a tree. Most of the time we don't know this. Once death moves closer, [...]

17Jan, 2020

Broken Toes

  Every year, like clockwork, my mother would walk into my childhood rocking chair late at night and break her toe. The first broken toe accident happened some time after [...]

13Dec, 2019

The Greatest Gift

After a night of limited sleep, I woke up on a four-foot long hospital couch and greeted my 70th birthday. I wore the longest inverted crescent moon frown I can [...]

16Oct, 2019

When the Light Is Gone

In the darkness, what I couldn’t see began to clear and take form. Perhaps life is like this—absence tells us what is important. There is a fullness in those empty [...]

3Sep, 2019

We Go On

  August 30, 2019 We go on with our days Slower now, more mindful, Yet in a numbness as though nothing really happened. And then I’ll look over at him, [...]

19Aug, 2019

The Forest

We entered the woods this year. In January. We didn’t slowly stroll in—we were yanked out of our complacency and tossed into the thicket.   We never left, but often [...]

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