Territory Fever Part II – the Rodey-Coddington Connection
Minnie Coddington was elated. She had won permission from her father, despite his stern regard of her earnest face, to …
Category Archives: Prose-poetry, musing
Territory Fever: A New Mexico Family’s Story Part I: Irishman Rodey Arrives in ABQ
Territory Fever: An Albuquerque Family’s Story Part I: An Irishman Arrives in ABQ My great grandfather Bernard Shandon Rodey stood …
“Coming Unto” a Greater Reality…Necessity Takes Us There
When I was a little girl who went to St. John’s Cathedral Sunday School in Albuquerque, I remember hearing someone …
Burning Down the House: Love & Co-Dependency at the Turning Year
Four nights ago my husband and I made love for the first time in several weeks. When you bring a …
Si Se Puede – Learning to Transcend, Love and Live with the Inner Girl
On an Indian summer day in 1979, my 60 year old mother did the first independent thing she had done …
TRUMP’S TESTOSTERONE TEMPEST TANKS PREX TRY…OR NOT
The 2016 Prex campaign of the past twenty-four hours has become freak show morphed into soap opera and from thence, …
Thriving Virtually: Literary Ahoys in the Night
I recently “shared” a new poem on Facebook, where one of the “apps” is that you can write a so-called …
Mea Culpa: Let Love Be Incarnate in December….
When I was a teenager, ever buoyed by high school, that I was a blossoming writer and editor of the …
At Sixty-Four….Confined and Defined No Longer
My gratitude and thanks-giving begin with the lovely fact that my immediate neighbors were out of town for a night …
Read It and Weep—He Liked My Work, But I Balked at the First Jump in the Editorial Olympiad
“Thanks for contacting me, redacted. There are in fact, numerous celebratory poems in the revised collection–in each section– that move …
