Where to begin. So much and not enough time as I said in my last post. In fact my desk is still a lovely mess, the sourdough starter hasn’t moved an inch on the counter and yet is now awaiting its first feeding (twice daily for 2 more weeks), the Italian prunes (plums) still shriveling [...]

I’m touched by my readers’ response to my poem Ode to Memory, and the what and how poems convey meaning, conjuring new ideas, relationships, old and new, a “carving out of  memory,” for one, “with the intensity and wonder of life itself,” for another. How mine could take one to Russia in thought, which then took me [...]

I am on the Monterey peninsula for the month of July–a return to family, friendships and a slower way of life, and 3 days into it it feels pretty good. Life is not linear, a friend told me recently, as I struggled to make sense of my path and where it was leading. Should I [...]