Usually when I see you, I think you are that same round-faced boy, the lucky one, the charming one, the one who is always very funny.

     Today as I listened to your words, there was a crunch, a grinding, like your words were gravel.   While you talked… Read full post »

In my experience dads are often absent, doing guy things like fishing.  My husband doesn’t fish and he’s a dad.  Neither did my father.  But I think dads should.  Not around an ice hole in a shack and not in a large, loud power boat making dents in the ocean,/… Read full post »

Last night a dove cooed. A cardinal was on the line. My children had been sick and now they

are not. Oil is spewing into the Gulf.

Day is here again. The sun, white and warm, inches up the seedlings. Arrogant dandelions

cluster close to spread.… Read full post »