Paths I have walked, literally, as I have explored the countryside around me from the time I could walk, and figuratively, as I walk through life.
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About
I was first inspired by the beauty of the local landscapes of Carnegie and the trails and byways along the Chartiers Creek and throughout the Chartiers Valley, paths I’ve been walking since I began to walk. Those paths led me away to learn new things, and led me back, to interpret what I’ve found.
My biggest inspiration for poetry, prose and artwork is still the world right around me, and I enjoy the opportunity to share it from the perspective of one who walks and hikes and bikes and carries a camera, art materials and journal everywhere—even around the house—so the inspirations are fresh.
The familiarity of weather and structure and cultural habit are a starting point, a base to build upon as I walk other paths while building my stories.
Latest Journeys
Poem for Saturday: A Little Thaw
The silence of ice hard-smooth glaringly mocking a manufactured perfection life, birth, spring held captive in plain view under a solid clear glaze pale world strangely hushed I tiptoe through afraid to break the surface with my sound but a snap, a crack, a drip, another whispers return to life around me once broken, the …
About My Mother
My mother died on January 25, 2011, and each year around that date I remember her in a post and share the poem I wrote for her the day she died. She had been ill for years, and this last time she’d gone to the hospital in congestive heart failure it was clear she would …
The Time Is Always Right to Do What is Right, and the Fierce Urgency of Now
When I was seven years old, my sister entered me in a beauty contest for first graders. That’s me on the left in one of the few photos I have of me from my childhood, dressed kind of like I do today, flowered dress and tights, hair cut with bangs and curly wavy long in …
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