If you bring four writing friends together to write a love poem, what happens? Well, first, a bit of confusion and maybe a little trepidation. But pick a poetic form, establish some guidelines, st...Read More
I write poems, because the process helps me think and because it brings me great joy. Writing seems to be the gift given to me to light myself out of darkness. By darkness I don’t necessaril...Read More
Do we know love in part by experiencing the sorrow created when our hearts are broken? Or do we understand sorrow better because we have been touched by love? Maybe we can come at it from either e...Read More
The images I have for that day are all contrived; I was away when John called telling me Caleb had climbed the fence and was gone. But the panic was real, so my imagination filled in the details, bu...Read More
One of my writing friends, Kevin Ewaskow sent me this poem for our month of Love Poems. Thank you Kevin for letting us inside your Dad-on-the-sideline-heart. In the middle of it My middle daughter r...Read More
Before we were married, John wrote me a lullaby. It was comforting, soothing, and beautiful. On this Valentine’s Day, to celebrate that gift of love to me and the way we used it over the yea...Read More
Loving Questions Certainty disappears as illusively as now. This moment gone and gone again constantly slipping impossible to hold except with a question – What makes you afraid? How can I help you?...Read More
Dear Lower Mainland, It’s complicated, I know. The snow doesn’t play nice. It’s a fair weather friend, (ironically) easily set off, fickle, regular rules don’t apply – the ones the rest of C...Read More
A love poem for all those who have had it with the snow… Love Drifts I fell in love with snowflakes so large free falling skydivers kaleidoscopes of patterns slowed in motion piled up around me ...Read More
When everything was still new and overwhelming, you said, ‘Come and learn with us.’ Not just every Thursday at 3:00pm, but, ‘Stay here, we’ll make room. Silakan masuk! Mangga! Please come in...Read More