Reverie: Patricia’s Blog

Re-Visioning?

Re-Visioning?

I've been thinking about trade-offs.  In a perfect world, you don't have to choose. In a perfect world, you always make the right choice -- or do you even have to make choices? 2025 gifted us with three new babies in my extended family. These new parents! So many...

Wood Duck Wonder

Wood Duck Wonder

Wood Duck Diary is Margaret Simon’s love letter to her home on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana.   In this small volume of twenty haibun (prose + tanka) poems there is: History – 22 years of passion for the flora and fauna of her home. Community –...

Darkness and Light

Darkness and Light

Thank you to Jone MacCulloch for leading us in this month's Spiritual Journey reflection on darkness, light, Advent, and finding periods of silence.  The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light. Isaiah 9:2For most of my life, December has meant...

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Published poet & kidlit writer

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