Sun pours down like honey

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.        -  Lao Tzu

"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its sp...

Go beyond what's comfortable. - Stanley Tucci's college acting coach

My chapbook will be out in early summer (it is about to snow yet again making the words "early summer" so beautiful) with Finishin...

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh 

So know this - if you love your library, use your library.  Support libraries in your words and deeds.  If you are fortunate enough to ...

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night. - Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

Note the dog picture thrown in as he looked so cute after being dried off after snow and has little to do with taffy. On a family list to tr...

The snow already falling here, blizzard on its way. Stay cozy and safe, everyone!

The birthday of my wonderful mother who is missed every day - and she married a Scot - perfect. Hope you are all having a great Burns night....

    To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. -  Jean-Paul Sartre The New Year rolls in, the fresh calen...

From the late, great, and brilliant James Marshall...

Very pleased to share that my short story, The Falls, is now available in the latest offering from the literary journal, Crab Creek Revie...

Bits from this lovely book about too many holiday house guests but they find room for them all and - of course!-- a festive time is had by a...

  Caught the wonderful Broadway show, Cabaret, on Sunday with the remarkable Alan Cumming and the current Sally - Emm...

You may be whatever you resolve to be.  Determine to be something in the world and you will be something.  "I cannot," never a...