Love, Words & Poetry

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!

A poem for the autumnal equinox, our love letters on gifts, and love music. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a Halloween poem from New Jersey, share our love letters on our new neighborhood in Northern California, and end with a poem inspired by an Annunciation statue loaned to me by my spiritual director. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem and our love letters written soon after our arrival in Northern California, and end with my most recent poem. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems of farewell: one for friends who have recently died of Alzheimer's, and the closing poem, which was a farewell to a young woman I met briefly in Manhattan, who seemed to sum up many of my lovely experiences when we lived in New York City. These bookend our first love letters written in Northern California. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at dance, at our love letters, and at the California sky, which was often an astonishing clear blue. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a revised poem remembering Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where I spent a large part of my childhood, read our love letters about leaving Allendale, New Jersey, for Northern California, and close with a contemporary version of the myth of Leda and the Swan. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a revision of one of my earliest poems, written when I was just getting to know Wes on the yearbook staff. Our love letters look at negative feelings, and the closing poem, which recently won 5th place in the Writer's Digest Rhyming Poem contest, goes all the way back to my delightful third-grade teacher who roller-skated with us after school. May words add more love and poetry to your...

I read two different versions of one poem, and share our thoughts, appropriate near the end of August, about vacations. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I introduce a newly revised poem and share our love letters on our new house. May words add more love and poetry to your days!