The news this week is painful. So many questions, so much pain in Israel and Palestine. Pain for the past seven decades, and more pain in the future too. God, please help. The slices in my life recently seem to include sadness and questions and worry about how to be a better global citizen, but […]
It’s Poetry Friday and thank you to Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core for the lunar goodness she shares and for hosting today. I’m still writing outside each day this week (so far). The weather is perfect and the beauty is deep, but perhaps it’s the painful conflict in Gaza and Israel that keep […]
It’s time for the #Writeout, an annual time to go outside and write! Thank you, NWP, for sponsoring so many opportunities for all to write. Yesterday I got lost viewing and reading prompts and ideas for writing out. Here is one I watched by a NE Ohio high school teacher, Amy Hirzel. She is a […]
Today is Poetry Friday, and our host is Matt Forrest Esenwine, who has some beautiful stargazing opportunities for us! Fly: An Anthology of Poetry with contributions from Poetry Friday friends Marcie Flinchum Atkins (I learned about it from her here) and Michelle Kogan. (And others too, I believe?) My copy has shipped, they say, but […]
A Covid-19 Lazy Sonnet virus fever iris griever scrapheap headache asleep awake health capsized stealth surprise BUT feeling healing Two years ago I wrote a small poem each day in October using a word from the Inktober prompts. I thought I would challenge myself again this year with the new list. Does anyone want […]
Wednesday, 20 October Embrace Your Why with Andy Schoenborn Why I Bake So I can enjoy the smell of chocolate chip cookies lingering in my home, I bake. When I crave rhubarb crisp with ice cream, I bake. When I want to tear my hands into a warm crusty loaf of sourdough, I bake. I […]