To Go On Her Way By Susa Silvermarie Dorothy is lying on her side unable to speaksince her stroke three weeks ago.The bedrail is down, my chair drawn close.We are eye to eye.Dorothy managed apartments all her life.This once independent woman never married,has no family to protect herfrom medical meddling. Tomorrow,the nursing home physician […]
Calico Cat She left us softly, just like that,Without a mew, without much fuss,She was discreet, a friendly catWho lived her simple life with us,And never gave a tit for tat.She let me feed her, stroke her tail,Or sometimes if I quietly satShe’d find my lap and purr a whileAs if to say “Let’s
Sea Of Cortez If love were but a mere abstraction,I’d wish it still my sole distraction. SEA OF CORTEZ Tons and tons of brawny brineThe Sea of Cortez hurlsAgainst this Baja shore divine,This Cabo cast with pearls. Rhythmic rush and heaving crushOf waves upon this shore;Never ceasing, ne’er a hushBeating, beating ever more. It’s
The Montana Cowboy By Bob Strand On the day it began, four of us were gathering one of our pastures in the late spring. The pasture was not as large as most of our ranch pastures. Being less than three miles across, it was fairly easy for four mounted men to sweep from one
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Critical Thinking Is . . . Critical! By Fred Mittag Maybe, like me, you can point to a few events or people in your lives that were major influences. Examples for me were my parents, three or four high school teachers, and a college history course called “Opposing Viewpoints.” This course included readings about
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UNDERWEAR—More Than You Ever Wanted to Know By Chuck Poulsen My Christmas stocking from my daughter last year contained a pair of SAXX underwear. That’s S – A – X – X, printed in big letters across the waist band. The price was also printed in large type on the box, like a secondary brand
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Fear Of Fables By Janice Kimball Wikipedia: Fable is a literary genre: a fictional story that features animals, legendary creatures or forces of nature that are given human qualities, and that leads to a moral lesson. I was a literary innocent at the time I wrote my first book, Three in a Cage, unaware that
The Walk to the Paradise Garden By John Thomas Dodds Paradise Gardens are the places that hold an energy of Love, once planted there it never leaves. You can come back to it time and time again, it’s like you’ve never been away. Having cultivated on your journey to Paradise Garden the art
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Milk Maids- the Divination of Carnality Author Unknown Oh, to be that merry, blue faced god,then I could multiply our pleasureInto a moon-lit dance of infinite devotion Her dress slides down her body.She steps out of it, puddled at her feet,rising from the sea of all his fantasies.When viewed with such adoration and desire,as
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The Memory Lingers On By Kay Davis When I was just a youngster with a pesky little towhead brother who was forever tagging along, we lived in a house that had been “bombed.” Well, ours was really the house next door, suffering only external damage. It seems the couple who owned the property had
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