It's been a while since I ran into an engaging blog that was real, and with a real effort to make it beautiful.  I ran into one of those today.  

Starting a small business isn't easy when you have the best of opportunities, enough startup cash, and plenty of help.… Read full post »

I think most of us, when we consider being a writer, are seduced not only by the written word, but by delusions of grandeur.  We will write the Great American Novel, we will have our inherent talent recognized, we will taste of glory, live in a penthouse, win a Pulitzer.  … Read full post »

 "As the leader of 12 apostles, Jesus had more executive experience than Obama"  Ann Coulter

I believe that America is going to swing the hardest right we've seen in history.   We have not learned the lessons of Europe when it comes to theocracy, or fascism for the simple reason that… Read full post »

Like everyone else,  (I assume, anyway), I have been compiling my list of New Year's resolutions. Talk about pressure!   To date, I have kept about four New Year's resolutions:

1.  I quit my job 10 years ago due to downsizing, and went back to college for my BA.… Read full post »

I have recently become very enmeshed in the world of writers and writing through the Internet.  The Internet is rather like going to the big city for the first time--at least to me.   You don't have an idea just how many people can fit into a space until you've gone to… Read full post »

Driving down highway 83 south in the inky black
midnight
intent on the road
a flashpoint of light out the driver’s side window
catches my eye.
With a gasp I slow the truck
mesmerized
until a sudden bump reminds me of the shoulder
and I pull to a stop
a turn… Read full post »

The last few days at the end of the year is one which engenders contemplation for me.  The outdoors are asleep under a blanket of snow, all is quiet, and I think of the beginning of the year, New Years', when I resolved to invest in… Read full post »

All too often, documentaries about Native Americans tend to focus on the poverty on the reservation, and too little time focusing on the many positive things that Native Americans are doing.  Diane Sawyer's "Children of the Plains" seemed to be yet another documentary that… Read full post »

it is there I meet you in

this field of dreams.  Breezes blow

gently rustling trees surrounding the

grassy expanse between our lives.

there is a beach across heaven where once we met and

it was there I bridged… Read full post »

There is still no snow here and the bare naked brownness of the land is a constant reminder of death, or life on hold.   I have been wrestling with my belief of late and struggling with a grief that has gone on almost 12 years.  It is an inconstant grief,… Read full post »

 Forever is defined by endless blue water

rendered brown by the spring rains.

her voice, low, harmonious

calls to me

and I have heard her in the night’s shapeless dreams she

has cut me in two

my soul wanders aimlessly in her icewater mansions

my body wandering over grassy prairie seas… Read full post »

   I am sitting in my easy chair after just having cleaned my house. It is a mild day for Dakota, being 80 degrees, not stifling hot, just balmy.  And my hardwood floors are gleaming from the cleaning they have just received, and the entire house smells fresh, and light and… Read full post »

I have been spending the last year having an adventure.  I moved across country from Ohio to South Dakota for national service.   I live on an Indian reservation (yes, it says Indian reservation on the signs, and they call themselves Indians), and living in Dakota has been the most int… Read full post »