Love, Words & Poetry

The podcast opens in Dallas in August, where I used to run before everything heated up, shares our love letters on Wes's new job in San Francisco, and closes with a poem lamenting the death of my poetry mentor of 40 years, Colette Inez. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem written after my best friend’s brother, who was a kind religious brother, had died. It is a poem full of hope, as are our love letters and the closing poem on mercy. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems look back at a fall in Schenectady, New York, and toward our new home in Northern California, while our love letters reflect our attitudes toward the upcoming cross-country move. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I have poems about summer and almost summer bookending our love letters about flying to California to look for a house. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a poem on the parable of the prodigal son, which has often been described as being about a prodigal father, pivot to our love letters on selling our house after we had made the decision to move to California, and return to a poem seeing God as a Trinity dancing. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The poems that serve as bookends are another very early one, from my poetry workshop with New York poet Colette Inez before I got married, and my most recent one, with a look at tuning forks and our love letters on our new baby in between. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two Valentines bookend our love letters on being married. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Beginning with an overview of the New Jersey spring we would leave behind if we moved to California, I share our love letters, where we considered our decision, and leap forward to May 2025 and our first granddaughter's graduation from Law School. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I move from evening to how we manage conflict in our love letters to how I thrive with margin in my life. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look back to my visits to Mexico in high school when I was stunned by the vibrant beauty of the bougainvillea everywhere, and the word of the day is Teotihuacán, the ruins we explored when I was in Mexico with my parents. Our love letters speak of the changes we experienced after welcoming our third child to our family, and the closing poem celebrates scenes from life with our son, our sixth chi...

My poems focus on blues: blue days and blue space. Our love letters reveal our feelings about Wes returning to work after his time at home with our new baby, Amy. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Beautiful seasons and our love letters on whether to move to Northern California. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Beautiful seasons and our love letters before we finally decided to begin before we decided to divide to Northern California. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem reflecting ideas on change by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, share our thoughts on a major change in our lives, and end with a trip to Muir Woods. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I have two very different poems that illustrate how birds lead us to freedom, along with love letters on how we feel about the other's work. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a recent poem on a fractal flower, include our love letters on how we spent our weekends, and close with a reflection on time and timelessness. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My first poem is the result of a major revision of 5 lines I dashed down just as I was finishing the work I needed to do in order to graduate from college. Our love letters look forward to the birth of our third child, and the closing poem is from last year. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem about Northern California, where I resisted the changed geography from the East Coast, share our love letters as we looked forward to the birth of our third child, born in New York City but in 3 months accompanied us all to Concord, California. I end in Southern California, where I've lived now for over 40 years. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at marriage in Genesis, in our love letters, and dream of summer in the middle of winter in the final poem. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two poems written as I was trying to adjust to the geographical differences between New Jersey and California bracket love letters we wrote as we were discovering new relationships with God. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I include two versions of "St. John's Alphabet Fugue," 30 years apart, with a description of a fugue, and our love letters on our oldest daughter starting her own "alphabet fugue" in kindergarten. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I discover winter victories in the garden and in poetry making, along with our love letters on the masks we wear and how they affect our relationship. For an overall picture of what we learned during our marriage, you might also want to order my book, Spectacular Marriage: 10 Surprising Ways to Divorce Proof Your Marriage , available at Barnes & Noble or on my website, greenvisionsbooks.godadd...

My poems today look at the expected birth of one of our children, and the blessing of marriage, and our love letters reflect our feelings as we approached the upcoming birth. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two different versions of my poem, "December 8," and our love letters look at how our approach to Christmas has changed since we started sharing our feelings more deeply. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a modern take on the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne, read our love letters on our children's love, and end with a salute to the full moon. May words add more love and poetry to your days!