It’s time for our family get-away not a cottage but a  week up in Boyne. A resort here in upper Michigan far away from the chaos and noise.   Pack the car with food, masks, and goodies and a bottle of iced coffee for me….

A reliance heavily on self without the unwanted influence of others. Careful with whom is granted access to her life. Find her in the bookstore corner quietly skimming the markdowns. See her in the grocery store shopping while listening to 90’s music through her air…

Our bus zooms past treeline highways as we travel to the annual camp-meeting I am always looking forward to the camp-meeting It is in the cool, dry breeze and the happy faces It is in the strange people who peopled the places There is no…

PITY   The heat of midday faded as the brilliant summer sun settled below the tree line.   Strange seemed the firefly who earlier zoomed about the cottage now looking lethargic and spent.   Had he succumbed from the heat of the day or did…

I was in my cottage… And this strange little bird … popped in. He told me, “Ain’t this heat like sin?!” I looked at the treeline; shaking the lethargy of my quarantine. There my porridge sat, and ZOOM, the bird spat! I saw he wore…

I got goosebumps at midnight, when he held me tight. We looked each other being lost in each other side. millions of days are gone Now he says hold our baby’s finger tight.

Reaching out to the far, searching secret combinations must surly unlock some concealed affections, yet scorn springs from unending upturned wells, Human legs destructive in bird nest incubator, Writing intended perpetually for all time, now washed by each dismissive scroll. Muted against those adored with…

The sunlight breaks aggressively through the curtains. Bed covers mimic the gentle touch of a lover. As my eyes open to hear the cabinets slam close and the refrigerator slowly creaking open. I thought my daughter was still asleep. My son has left for work,…

LOLLY THE CLOWN COMES TO TOWN (Disclaimer:  I performed as Lolly the Clown for over 20 years.  My friend Kim said this would be a good topic to write about.  Oddly enough today, our neighbor gave my husband a ceramic clown to give to me. …

She sends him a text message but it is not a text message it is a unique text message two images, arms wrap-around each other.   He replies her text message but there is no text in his message he pushes the button and an…