A Leaf Gone Yellow
A leaf, gone yellow, flecked with dark orange & red, so perfect it arrests the eye, lands to tell the story of its brilliance…
Calling It Good
When your professional life involves pulling weeds, you have time to think & plan, according to the sky, the first flush of geese, the dropping leaves, the front blowing in, tonight…
Touching Stones
I’m not really interested in swimming, just interested in not dying due to some careless maneuver…
Nearly Fatal
Do you ever derail yourself, because of what you think is being said about you?
Raw Is Real
The few blossoms left grow brighter, as if to squeeze every last drop of summer until we cry out "Enough!" …
The Architecture of Prayer
There are things we took for granted, and I reach for them still…
Glo’s Sugarbush
I'd hoped to help Glo put up her last couple cords of firewood, and I did, but throwing firewood is an inexact science ...
Dinner at Susan’s
I worked my day shift at the top of the valley, where the two dirt roads converge. Monarch Hill and Spring roads in Tunbridge, a neighborhood so full of character; I won't easily let it go…