all my children
i want to carry all my children on my back and in my arms i want to smell their all-day-playing sunscreened heads then watch them as they drift away down …
Goldfish, Boogers, and Conversations with God
I had every intention of writing about this earlier today but a later conversation with a treasured friend solidified my need to record these thoughts. If they are meaningful to …
Suffragette Salad?
I used what was part bathroon, part hallway then sat down in a chair there. The door opened a bit later and in walked a young woman from Mauritius. She’d …
All This.
As the sun sets and our little one sleeps in her new “big girl bed,” I’m finding myself reflective and very grateful. I’m looking out our back yard and thinking, …
fame & faithfulness
Wrote this draft in February 2015. Just came across it. Quite fitting this week. — i wanted to be big time, bigger than Michael Jackson, until i realized that an …
Not a Eulogy
I can’t unsee so I will not look The body, the force, the falsified book Another story skewed by thoughts Of what could be but what was not I can’t …
unexpected gratitude
All I could think of once I got close to the statue was, “put down the lilies and keep on walking.” And that’s what I did.