My brother had played an April's Fool's trick on me. I was so little then that I didn't think it was funny and my feelings were...

You can't change the wind, but you can set your sails in the direction you want. Favorite quote of James Durbin American Idol Contesta...

"Walk as if your feet were kissing the earth."  ~~Barbara Ann Kipfer

It was not just one earthquake, and one tsunami that has done the unimaginable. The March 11 magnitude-8.9 quake (later changed to 9.0) was...

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream befo...

With the dust roiling up in the air, my sister and I shoveled our piles of junk into the middle of the floor. It wasn’t long before we neede...

Spring cleaning has taken over my life. While going through old file boxes, I came across the following written to me by Verna, which I find...

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WRITING AND KNOWING 8th Annual Poetry Workshop with Ellen Bass, Dorianne Laux, and Joseph Millar July 24-29, 2011 at Esalen, Big Sur, C...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ECHOES, A POETRY JOURNAL Deadline:  March 31 Their featured poet is Todd Boss, author of Yellowrocket  (W.W.Nort...

I will encounter setbacks along the way to my goals. These setbacks may depress me and crush my spirit. But I will refuse to accept def...

I've been sliding through life in a gray zone for many months. It's a sticky kind of slide, though. It stops me in my tracks wheneve...

It starts with a feeling of numbness. The world is flat and so am I, like in a cartoon. Flat and gray. Even my energy is flat. I cannot ...

Sitting there reading I feel her eyes staring at me.  Did she bore a hole into my brain the last ten minutes to impress my mind to think o...

The big black garbage bag, shiny and ominous sat in the middle of my living room floor. I looked at my best friend, despair emanating from...