Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose
How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …
Category Archives: Nature
Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives
I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …
Song of Me and Mine
Tonight as we marvel at the summer solstice super-moon, our family will be celebrating our daughter’s birthday. In remembrance of this lovely event, …
The Pieta and the Writer’s Palette
It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …
Into the Flow, Mountain Top and Market Place Experiences
Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …
Lightness of Being, Unbearable and Otherwise
I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” before I ever read …
Personification – Infusing “I” in “Other”
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …
Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines
Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …
Redwoods and Waterfalls – Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
One of my favorite places to visit is the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, a two-hour drive …
A Walk to the River
We walked to the river recently, my husband and I and our little dog Mitsy. A short hike down a canyon …
