Sun pours down like honey

Hey all,  I will be offering a poetry how to mad libs sort of talk for all those people who tell me they long to write poetry but don't ...

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.  - Anais Nin

My mom thought an ideal job would be a travel agent. It was the early seventies, my parents doing a lot of business plus related travel, and...

When I was a teenager it always seemed having a subscription to The New Yorker was such an adult thing to do.   Even if after all these year...

Found a box twenty plus years forgotten deep in the basement. Letters from my parents, postcards and long notes from old friends -some of wh...

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and ...

Every year these stunning displays to celebrate Day of the Dead at my library created by local artists. This art resonates for so many reaso...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. -Thornton Wilder

The Japanese Maple at the side of the house never ceases to astonish me each October.

In the second issue of the journal that draws its name from the beautiful Hudson River, I am so pleased to have two new poems out in River, ...

This tree is the first being to greet you as you enter the grounds. I am fond of trees bearing their names. The way its old limbs sprawl rem...

Everything is hard before it is easy.  - Goethe

And I am so pleased with it. Worth the wait.  If you are interested in getting your very own copy, go to the Finishing Line Press website or...

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. - W.B. Yeats 

Loved this sign on a wall in either Scotland or England (many stops on road trip, it blurs).

Happy to have my short story, Eva's Ocean, in the 2015 edition of The Westchester Review. http://westchesterreview.com/authors.html

My dear friend's dog, Moonlight, passed away this weekend. Moonie was a great family dog, a loyal companion, and possibly part Wookie. ...