America the Beautiful: Tennessee
My Independence Day vacation in Tennessee was glorious. Playing in nature's amusement park - like splashing and cooling off in a...
Poet's Corner: Make Us Be
Poems don't come to me often anymore. They used to pour out of my heart like a drip of water leaking from a faucet. So when they escape...
The City I Built in My Brain
It's amazing how fast I can start to put walls up. If I misconstrue something someone says then I pull back and erect a wall. It's self...
I'll Listen for You
Today my neighbor waltzed over and rang the doorbell like any other day. He's a talkative fella so sometimes I dread being cornered by...
Looking Like a Wildflower
Tonight was a beautiful evening to sit on the back porch. The April weather was in full swing with a sunny sky and my yard was full of...
Missing Person
Sitting out on my patio this morning as the breeze rifled the leaves on the trees, I wondered what felt wrong on the inside. I felt...
Silent No More
As I sat across my friend at dinner last night, she couldn't wait to tell me that I was right. I had called it. A situation involving a...
Don't Be a Tolstoy
I love the contradictions of life. Not really. I'm like everybody else, it's the little things that annoy me. Why Tolstoy? I read his...
Jim's Survival Story: Piecing Together a Plane Crash
Jim and his squadron mate left work one humid July evening and headed to the airport to complete a flight review and aircraft checkout in...
Writing a Valentine's Day Card
Welp, the famed love day is right around the corner...Valentine's Day. Some romantics like to write their own cards. Whether you are a...
