Sun pours down like honey

If I were asked to give what I consider the most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:  Expect trouble as an inevitable...

Look closely.  Do you see the prints on the ice?  Geese, I imagine, plodding over the frozen lake daydreaming of warm skies and fat little...

A new poem, First Light, is in The Manhattanville Review at this link:  http://mvillemfa.com/journal/ Happy to share the online pages with...

Ever so pleased to have my story, The Exit, included in this great collection of writing about travel and wanderings with a good dash of w...

  It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the sha...

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. -Voltaire

Only we would head to Charleston, South Carolina for a mini-vacation and have them declare a state of emergency the day we ...

i lean back and feel the warmth of you traveling from one place to a/ nother.  and i am gone.  home/ bound to where you also live. -...

Quel horror! The glowsticks all conked out after an hour.  Hoarding of leftover holiday items to the rescue - little battery oper...

Have wanted to make snow ghosties after seeing first a Calvin and Hobbes where he made a snow army and secondly, a bit in a book ab...

Who's gonna take your place, fill your shoes? Who's gonna take your place, fill your shoes? You never used to look behind you, t...

He saw clearly how plain and simple - how narrow, even - it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value...

We had a sweet gum tree in the back yard growing up.   It fell to me to rake up the spiky sweet gum balls when they fell, sometim...

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. - Ezekiel 36:26

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.  The fears are paper tigers.  You can do anything you decide...

The Angels were all singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon Or curb a runawa...

The umbrella, the author's own, as well as her own doll.  Bits and string snips from the New York Public Library...