file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/storytelling%20pic_files/23843396_1116965558406503_8867288065344593881_n(1).jpg   Storytelling, captures her attention. She loved hearing about a fellow taking a wonderful three country vacation and seeing an old telephone and a sign in three languages in a corner of each church in each country: “Call Heaven, five minutes, and (the cost)”…

The view out my writing window takes on a lovely hue in Springtime. Just after sunrise The streams of light filtering through new growth, sparsely filling the hackberry and maple, give a supernatural glow of rebirth to the landscape, casting long shadows. And just before…

We shall meet at the mount on the day that we wed after all of the clamour has cleared and with all of the good will as wind in our sails we shall fly on their well wishes here We shall sit on our bench…

I ask questions that go forward and backward to help to describe what our five senses fail to give me about the disquiet this place exudes as I write from left to right ignoring the white spaces between words as if seeing the black letters…

Looking for a role model, choose a Great Depression Dad for strength and honor. He had a soft heart, forged by hardship and war, and a gentle touch. With a little humor, he gave much well-earned praise, while home by dinner.

HEY GOAT ROPER When are you going to get your ass up here and go camping??? Mr. Bigtime Hollywood is too fancy to get drunk with rednecks? I found a spot further up that logging road where we tore the bumper off, lets get Jason…

Dried roses and baby’s breath sit atop of each other In a vase of transparent glass They seem so comfortable and well suited Glass and dried flowers beautifully matched in a transitional phase A reflection of the full budded roses That filled the vase several…

Six years in the desert of southwest Texas gave me a new appreciation for seasonal change, anchoring my soul and body to time and place in a manner missing for those half dozen years. Three years since my return, and my gardens and knowledge are…

Cat, Crate and Garden Gate Charlie watch your back around you there is a cat tracking the backyard. Contained in a crate, released free into the wild, audibly adept. The house cat is free, everyone knows not to tease, Anger a cat, no. Never tease…

The finger asked me: ‘Of all the fingers you own, why did you choose me to hurt?’ I avoided an answer Because I was void of one Head bent in guilt, I pleaded, It was an accident, no, not my carelessness for I saw the…