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Poem in a Parking Lot

by | Apr 21, 2012 | Poetry & Prose

{I wrote this after getting gas today, thinking about my wife and that I’m tired of not writing poetry … } You are not my Rock for a rock is cold, unyielding No, you are my very Earth support in every place I tread bearing blessings in a regular harvest...

Not Quite a Spring

by | Apr 9, 2012 | Everyday Life, Family & Personal

I hear the sound of lawn mowers, interspersed with the silence of snow, putting on a scarf to scurry beneath the blazing sun, birds chirping but bitter wind blowing.  The color is heavy green without the accompanying smells of what nature intimates to be the...
Our First Greehouse … In My Office

Our First Greehouse … In My Office

by | Mar 31, 2012 | Everyday Life, Parkview

Merry found a great deal on a covered, 4-shelf rack greenhouse.  I immediately went out and got it (at Big Lots), along with some potting soil.  We went through our seeds and bought some others — we’re starting tomatoes, peppers, sunflowers, and various...

A Little Visitor

by | Feb 24, 2012 | Family & Personal

A client at the vet hospital, someone who devoutly cared for her own animals, finds a teacup poodle in the middle of the street, so dehydrated and hypothermic it was unable to do more than twitch in an effort to avoid oncoming cars.  She scooped him up and brought him...