Every New Arrival (Lazarus)

  In mid August I spent some time in a local Behavioral Health Hospital due to the sudden onset of severe panic attacks.  I continue to write about it as a way of processing the experience.   Every new arrival receives the same tour –  here’s...

The Woods (a poem)

Within you dwells a wood –  there are trails, some old and overgrown, others fresh-cut and, between them, wide open spaces filled with untamed growth. In those woods you are every age you have ever been, every age you will be. Those woods walk up the...

Dear Anxiety (A Conversation with Anxiety)

       In mid-August, the sudden onset of severe panic attacks landed me in the hospital for several days.  Since then I’ve continued to struggle with generalized anxiety, although medication is helping.  Walking through...

Harvest (I want to be home when the combine comes)

Photo Source: HERE. The neighbor’s dog killed our kitten.  He’s an old speckled hunting hound who hobbles painfully through a large fenced yard. Our kids feed him handfuls of bone shaped biscuits through the fence and run back and forth calling his name. ...
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