A Love Supreme

There is an adolescent boy who rides my bus in the mornings. He’s maybe 13? Maybe 12? I’ve been watching him grow up the four years I’ve been living in my neighborhood. He boards with his mom. They are beautiful in a sharp, austere way. They sit together and talk about his homework, or the [...]

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Sometimes, anytime’s the right time …

Sometimes, anytime’s the right time. A moment grabbed, taken. Whole moments savored, easy goal. Held tight-tightly to your soul.* Oh, don’t ask me. It just fell in there. I’m not sure what I think about it, but there it is. Great afternoon with my family after a really excellent Spanish lesson in which I was [...]

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Love inspires.

Today my niece is 13.  That shocks and amazes me.  Isn’t she still two and a half?  Isn’t she 30?  I’ve written a poem for her birthday each of the last three years, each year that I’ve pushed myself to explore a form for the month of April.  So now she has a tanka, a Rhyme [...]

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Fox in the Henhouse

(Not really. I just wanted a title with”fox” in it.) Today is my sister’s birthday. “Fox” is what I call her here. She’s my kid sister, my baby sister. She is, of course  neither kid nor baby. She  is my touchstone, the one I trust to tell me the truth even when I don’t want [...]

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Inventing Memoir

Last month I read Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns. I’m still trying to find the way to write about it, about all the ways it has affected me.  I’m not there yet.  I think I need to read it again, need to have a few more conversations about it.  I most want to have [...]

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