Love, Words & Poetry

Poems about the sun and monarch butterflies bookend our love letters about the compliments we most loved as a couple. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a poem on the birth of our son, share our love letters on our dreams for spreading love through Marriage Encounter, and end with "Make Us Beacons," a poem of hope. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The opening poem goes back to childhood with my father's parents, moves to a day at the pool in Northern California, and leaps ahead to a transforming time of joy. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Candles, love letters on our home, and being at home in the world. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two widely spaced poems on summer bookend our love letters on my openness to listening to Wes and his willingness to share deep feelings with me. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem from my book, Stringing the Bow , read our love letters reflecting on how we listen to one another, and close with a poem from the same period as our love letters, unrevised. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We briefly leap ahead in time from moving to California with baby Amy to the present, when Amy needed an emergency C-section to deliver their ninth baby, Damian Augustine. The first poem is also current, but our love letters are from our time in Northern California, and the second poem is also from my adjustment to the very different geography in California. Enjoy the time travel! May words add mo...

Our life was chaotic when we moved from New Jersey to Northern California with two little girls and a new baby, selling our house on the East Coast and buying a new one in California, and Wes taking the California Bar Exam. We plunged into writing talks and giving Marriage Encounter Weekends, and I only had time for scraps of poetry during the two years we lived there. May words add more love and...

Reflections on Northern California summers, chaparral, dry dialogues, and the Southern California desert. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two poems from our life in Northern California bookend our love letters that reflected on the first. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We run the gamut of emotions today, from our daughter's trips to the Emergency Department in Canada to our love letters looking forward to giving our first Marriage Encounter Weekend, to a poem about celebration. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Wes and I dialogue on my first published poem; years later I was dazzled into a poem on the Perseid meteor shower during a visit to Oregon. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I'm including the longest poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, in this podcast, along with love letters about our feelings when Wes came home from work. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with another poem from my book, Stringing the Bow , read our love letters from our eighth wedding anniversary, and close with a poem for our daughter who celebrated her birthday yesterday. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A lighthearted remembrance of stroller adventures, holding hands in church, and diving headlong into Daylight Savings Time. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a dark poem that ends in hope, rather like Holy Week that begins today for Christians. Our love letters talk about hope for the weekend, and I close with a poem about a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, appropriate to the Jubilee of St. Francis that Catholics celebrate this year. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A band concert pulls up a tribute to the French horn in my new book, our love letters celebrate endearing qualities, and "Green Inebriation" reappears, revised, as spring inevitably will come. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem written after a dinner we shared overlooking La Jolla Cove, our love letters about new demands on our time and attention after our move to California, and another poem reflecting on our fifth daughter. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems from the pre-publication copy of my book, Stringing the Bow, and our love letters from my first attempt to deal with my depression. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at the ramifications of an encounter with a snake in my childhood, read our love letters on doing things we like, and end with my only sonnet on green visions in Dallas. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The first poem tells the story of growing up from Texas to Oklahoma to New Jersey and discovering love at 17. Our love letters share how we grew more deeply in love after our Marriage Encounter Weekend, and the closing poem traces the journey to home. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

In view of the upcoming publication of my book, Stringing the Bow, I read the first two poems and our love letters on what keeps us together as a couple. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We go from high school chemistry to the Kumeyaay indigenous people in the San Diego area to the lush green of Southern California winter. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

This episode includes a snowy day at the Empire State Building, our love letters about spending time together, and ends with an image of our granddaughter as a vigil light. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Ways to be thankful, from words to home to love. May words add more love and poetry to your days!