To learn to be a good friend, kids need models of friendship. WHAT IS A FRIEND? is 41 poems showing friends come in...
Poetry Friday: For the love of poetry
To learn to be a good friend, kids need models of friendship. WHAT IS A FRIEND? is 41 poems that show that friends...
Poetry Friday: Comings & Goings & Trees
In what feels like an instant – though likely not by my pup who was a 13-hour road warrior - I was transported this...
POETRY FRIDAY: Scars
WOUNDS paper cuts, puppy teeth, scratches on the knee, slivers, stings, surgeries for appendectomies, unmet...
Poetry Friday: Dayenu
Dayenu "It would have been enough..." Dayenu is a prayer, traditionally sung during the Jewish holiday of...
Poetry Friday: Drought Baby
“Sometimes the job of a poet is to register what happened off the page...see the everyday magic, miracle... Love is...
Poetry Friday: Throw the Dang Ball
My niece’s dog has come to stay with us this week. She used to be a hiker – the dog, not my niece. My niece is still...
Poetry Friday: No Greater Love
No Greater Love when the fallen log becomes home, food, life for lichen, squirrel, ant, termite bite by...
Poetry Friday: Girl On a Bicycle
Girl On a Bicycle by Troy Garrison (1939) The blue-enameled body of the slender beast Is alive, with the pulse...
Haiku Saturday: Stellar’s Jay
Deja vu... it's Spring (again) In the spirit of my seasonal whiplash, it is Spring in the Sierras. Snow greeted my...
Poetry Friday: Lake Tahoe, Claimed
Lake Tahoe, Claimed A million years of crust and crumble, claimed by faults, stretched and rumbled; mountains...
Haiku Saturday: Gardening
Thinking of Spring I have not crafted a haiku since the end of National Poetry Month! This week I was sidelined by...