I've never been buzzed by a hummingbird before. Or two or five. As if in a dare, they darted fearless, while I wrote at my canyon top perch in the midst of their breakfast. Cocooned by a radiant [Read more...]
I perched tall on the cushioned pew, trying to focus, warbling a hymn of love. The cross projected heroic on the screen, pierced my heart while I gazed silent rapt. Then a phone Brrrrings [Read more...]
As the world reels and groans And terror splatters red, The innocents perish Father’s mourn Mothers weep Brothers cry raw for their lost. Will the madness never end? And the ferris wheel [Read more...]
The young bedouin boy, scrambled across the rocky cliff face minding his own business, while searching for his goat. What he discovered in 1947 would rock the modern world of biblical scholars as one [Read more...]
Brash Peter, chest pumped full, head raised lofty, So sure of his courage. So sure of his loyalty Even if all the rest of them fall away, even if I have to die with you, I am stronger than [Read more...]
Breath held, white knuckles exposed, we ride toward the epic climax. Transported through space and time, we dare believe this impending disaster can reverse itself into a victory for our hero. The [Read more...]
It stares sour. Recriminations whisper ire. My curly handwriting blurs before my eyes and dances death’s dirge. Months have marched steadily past, Ushering in defeat that taunts like a school yard [Read more...]
She was taught to disbelieve. Any notions of fantasies or make-believe lay dying, nipped in the bud. And she was only six years old, A steady walker toward the road of cynicism her mother had [Read more...]
My friend emphatically proclaimed, “ You just ruined my day.” Her sharp intake of breath and wild eyes should have warned me. I absolutely didn’t mean to, I just made the statement, “It’s three [Read more...]
As I drape their garlands, and trim their trees with all sorts of baubles and sparkles and ribbons and shine, I turn my phone soft to soothing Jazz Christmas tunes and hum along. “It’s that time of [Read more...]