In Love With You:
For Valentine's Day I'd like to share one of my favorite love poems, written by the late Kenneth Koch. It captures the exuberance of falling in love with delight, surprise and … Continue reading >>
The Start
Last year, as the pandemic slowed life down and caused us to physically withdraw from one another, I dragged out a cheap chalkboard I'd bought for book shows a few years ago. On it I … Continue reading >>
First job
My husband Don laughed when I brought the Target delivery into the house this morning.
"I was doing that over fifty years ago," he said.
Delivering groceries, that is, from a … Continue reading >>
Clenching, grinding and pushing:
I bet you didn't see this coming: an increase in dental injuries attributed to the pandemic.
Dentists report a big uptick in patients grinding their teeth and … Continue reading >>
Please stop saying that:
Every year since the mid seventies, Lake Superior State University in Michigan's UP takes nominations for overused, misused and useless words to dump.
The goal is to … Continue reading >>
Blizzard by Linda Pastan
the snowhas forgottenhow to stopit fallsstutteringat the glassa silk windsockof snowblowingunder the porch lighttangling treeswhich bendlike old womensnarledin their … Continue reading >>