Adrift in the Day
source I hear children this morning playing in the sunshine, their voices tumble down the hill and across the gravel road. two robins amuse in a game of chase, loop […]
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What If Everything Were Alive?
What if everything possessed life? Not just trees and flowers and plants and animals; mammals and humans and fish. I’m talking about everything. Source Dirt. Stones. Mountains. Snow.
Summer: The Season of Inferior Sledding
Around my home town, you know it’s summer when a man down the road is mauled by a brown bear.This is the kind of news that shakes up the entire
Are You Enjoying Your Story?
Subtitle: Birthdays, Beers and Bonfires. Because we all love stories, and because we are ad infinitum creating our own unique histories every blessed day we’re gifted to kick up a
Of Glass and Stones
The way it is with my husband and I is this: he’s got his shop to fix and assemble his works of art and craft, and I’ve got mine. Only
Poetry Arrived…Faces
Poetry arrived….in search of me. I don’t know… I don’t know where it came from, from winter, or a river. I don’t know how or when… -Pablo Neruda I love
Kelly on a Wyoming Ranch
I wrote this story when I was 24 years old, after working “round up” at a friend’s family ranch near Rawlins, Wyoming. My first third rate romance, or maybe a
Things to Do on the Ski Train
Every year at Spring Equinox, the Alaska Railroad loads up skiers for the annual trip to Curry, an outpost 22 miles north of Talkeetna, for a day of snowshoeing and skiing. What to
Oh, To be Eighty Again
I’ve found who I want to be when I grow up. Yes, I know, just be yourself they say, but in the context of the larger world, we all look
First Thought. Best Thought.
ALL my life, I’ve been fascinated with how the mind works; how we think, dream, make decisions, intuit. I had a doctor’s appointment the other day.