Her poem “The Accident” was Identity Theory's Editor's Choice for Spring. Ink Sweat and Tears chose her poem“When light poured into me at the swimming pool” as a September Pick of the Month, and she recently made the shortlist of the Writing Ukraine Prize 2023. She is a poet/...
The old saying"To open a book is always helpful"clearly shows us how good it is to read a book.Books are our friends. They introduce us different kinds of knowledge.They lead us down the road to success.Books are our teachers.They teach us truth, science, literature, and philosophy of ...
Having said that, I’m still disappointed. Maybe our political candidates have always been this terrible & it’s just that the internet & social media have made us much more aware of all of their many faults.Regardless, I just can’t help but ask myself what it says about our country ...
Americans like to believe we are independent. Grief, Covid, and motherhood have taught me that while our experiences are unique, there are common threads to the human experience that can connect us if we let it. We need each other. We need soup and phone calls and texts and connection. ...
Wherever we are today, whatever we are, we owe it to our parents who have given and taught us so much, so we should thank them, especially, thank our mother. I think my mother is one of the best mothers in the world. She ...
Some think we should try to help strangers. Helping others is a virtue,and helping others is helping ourselves.We may come across some trouble and need others' help some day.If everyone isn't willing to help us just because we are strangers to them,it's hard to imagine what our world ...
I fell in love with Maya Angelou when I first heard her recite “Phenomenal Woman”, a poem is celebration of women, and how confidence can make even the plainest of women make men turn heads. Sample a few lines that made me fall in love with Maya’s writing; ...
What was critical in our teens, doesn’t compare to what mattered in our twenties or thirties, and it is a far cry from what drives us in our forties and fifties. At this a half-way point in my journey, I find thatwhat I most value in life is clarity. ...
just as she did for 13 years. Our puppy Scout from the Humane Society has warmed our hearts, made us laugh and sigh, kept us on our toes, and taught us patience. My parents’ beloved Fritz came from the shelter, and our daughter’s family’s amazing German shepherd was given to them...
One of the best things about being around a table are the things that happen there. I like my tables to have a patina of use. The scratches, knicks, burns and bruises that remind me of the life that has been lived around them. Like to Harjo poem below. ...