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  • The Shade Room

    I am simple. I go to my shade room. It would be a sun room if there were no giant oaks and holly trees covering its porch and backyard. Moss, hostas, ferns and begonias grow there, as well as my bed of impatiens. Mint, the plant that’s supposed to take over the planet struggles. But Read more

  • Eavesdropping

    “Martha, I told you I would be late. I’m sorry you’ve got to put the kids to bed by yourself again tonight, I just got on the bus. I can’t teleport very well,” I could tell this well dressed, dark haired, professional dude, with the chiseled chin sitting beside me on the bus was in Read more

  • Kindness of Strangers

    Thank God for the kindness of strangers. Little mercies we are grateful for that we often take for granted, like someone holding the door when our arms are full. They’re rarely there at 6:00 a.m. I had my arms full. My teacher bag was draped across my left arm with my coffee in my hand, Read more

  • Tornado Sirens

    I was so glad to be home. The kids at school couldn’t have jumped any higher or harder on my last nerves. Our classroom was big enough to accommodate three times as many students, between their loud voices and their perpetually moving bodies they took up every square inch of it. Getting them in their Read more

  • Unspoken Trophy

    “I need an introduction to our class.” So, I was asked to lead an exercise, Off the cuff with no tenor and no bass My chest puffed out ever so slight, so wise. Stood taller, looking people in the eye Relax, lean back, let them complete the why As if not wanting to draw attention Wrote poems with the “I am” intentionsTrying Read more

  • Delight Risk

    Either you will fall, or will be taught to fly. Read more

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  • Dear Creativity

    Not everyone dreams of living in a mansion with granite. Some of us dream of a house with an old stone wall.

  • Duty

    “I am a Goddess, worship me.” I said.

  • Fire Wall

    Squatch stunk like he hadn’t been crawdad fishing in months.

  • Maybe

    May you be happy May you be healthy May you be at peace May you know you are loved.

  • The Gazebo…an Exerpt from Norris Tales

    Hatred blooms bright in the human heart when dealing with a jerk of a cat on frigid wet ground.