“More and more people were born…some of their daughters were so beautiful that supernatural beings came down and married the ones they wanted.  Then the Lord said, ‘I won’t let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever.’”  Genesis 6: 1-3

Death came through the beautiful beings,
descending from ...

I come here every evening;
this place my familiar haunt.
There’s nothing I need to say;
they always know what I want.

The barkeeps are unperturbed
as I sit and sip my drink,
barely aware how transparent
I am, never asking what I think. 

They treat me like I am nothing
more substantial than eye-candy;
to b...

Alone, and relieved for reprieve from darkness,
I lingered longer and glanced behind;
having crossed a bridge that was bathed in light,
my eyes beheld a macabre sight. 

Was this flesh and blood, a friend or a foe,
this ghostly shape emerging from shadows?
Was my mind playing tricks, or trying to warn
of ...

I don’t like guns.  I understand that in our country we have a right to bear arms.  But I wish that we could do a better job of regulating their use.  If licenses are required for driving a car or even cutting someone’s hair, couldn’t there be a more effective licensing process for owning and carryi...

David and I like to take a different route each time we drive back and forth between Michigan and California.  We are particularly attracted to small towns and interesting hotels.  I have stayed several times in the Hotel Pattee in Perry, Iowa, but Dave had never been with me.  So, I put it on our r...

My cousin, who is a hospice nurse and administrator, was having some difficulty with a social worker who lied about her to her superior.  Her uncle asked, “Shouldn’t lying lead to an automatic dismissal?”  I then shared with them my husband’s three rules of Hollywood, based on his experience working...

“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
  even there your hand will guide me.”  Psalm 139:9-10

Last Saturday the time finally arrived for leaving our summer place.  I’m never ready to go, but there are reasons to be heading home:  birthdays, baseball games, book ...

                         the eagles have moved their nest 

                       this is not the first time they’ve found
                   a tree less accessible to curious watchers
                                  training their eagle-eyes
                              on their prey in the lake b...

Next Monday will be my granddaughter Chloe’s ninth birthday.  I love this picture of her praying.  There is something so pure, so humble about the prayers of a child.  I wish I could pray like that.  But the pain of the world is sometimes just too much.  The pain of micro and macro aggressions, pers...

The Canada geese are flying by;
they seem to be going the wrong way.
Skein after skein they wedge their way north
in the cool September morning,
unaware of what the calendar says.
They flock to find food
for the long winter months.
There is method to their madness.
Soon enough they will gaggle in place
or he...