Greetings from the deeps of night/early a.m. in Colorado. I have some remarkable, wondrous and miraculous things happening in my life right now, some of which I can speak to openly and some which should be a tad more private than the full Monty on the Web would have it. After clearing up a few misunderstandings, I […]

Once online, I get to be my best self (or sometimes not). I get to be the somewhat distinguished looking me in profile I recently posted to my “timeline.” I get to turn my “good side” to the camera. You don’t know and I don’t have to tell you, that there is a crease in […]

Migration The heavy-bodied wake at dusk, inching toward open water. With tensing flippers long as sand-crane wings, they knife through riffling phosphor. They voyage on in an armada thousands strong, great shell-houses on their backs. Desire compels them; the belly’s load of roe made weightless in this habitat impels them. How is it they travel […]

Revised since first posting. We like to think that we choose what to believe, as an act of personal will.  And so we adopt a belief system with its construct for our existence and its blueprint for how to conduct ourselves in the world. But how difficult it is to examine a theology or a […]

There are so many things I would do over now that I see them more clearly. What– you too? Regarding feeling left in the lurch in defending my decision as group founder/moderator to create a separate thread for “suicide poems” at a mega-women-writers site two years ago and moving a few poems to that thread– […]

I watched the recently released movie Flight tonight– and in the course of watching alcoholism over-dramatized, if that’s possible, and AA idealized, which is what Hollywood does when it doesn’t have anyone on the “inside” to bring producers back to earth, I gave thanks again for my intellectual awakening over the course of the past few […]