Saving the Indigo Girls
So back sometime in the late eighties the Indigo Girls were a little known folk rock group popular in women’s and lesbian circles. And to me. Passionate music on acoustic guitars, music to my...
Road Trips and Resistance Blog
A Friend’s Mother
On a Thursday a friend called to cancel our plans for Saturday. She was responsible for planning her mother’s memorial service on Sunday, and was overwhelmed. Could I help her pick out poetry for...
Big Bang!
My floor to ceiling office window turned into jewelry, sparkling all around me. The mighty gods grabbed hold of me by the chest, but let me go right away. I nearly cried when I...
Beer and Guns Don’t Mix
So about 15 years ago we went on vacation to a hotel/resort in the Berkshires with a few other families we knew. I think this was the second time we had been. Mostly it...
Was It a Dream
Was it a dream a stolen kiss freely given a look along the bar she comes to me I stammer like a teenager how difficult can this be does he mind does he care...
Struggle
I must struggle to be young and immortal again every day an opportunity to earn a gold star to do some adulting every day more precious my life is a lever With one end...
Darkness Falls
It’s a memory not a dreamLiving in it every dayI will always be seven somewhere there is a sunlit fieldcut into a hillside of chalksomewhen darkness fallsas i wait for my brother i walk...