It's not snowing where I live, but it's snowing in many of the places where my friends and family members live right now, and I'...

In January I learned again that January is not my favorite month . It's a month full of anniversaries, not just of the 2010 earthquake...

Book #6 of 2019 was A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Meant to Live , by Emily P. Freeman. "Eternity is not for later,...

Once again this year I am taking and posting a daily photo , and today's prompt on CY365 is "Prism." I was trying to think of ...

I imagine a lot of Poetry Friday posts tomorrow are going to be about Mary Oliver, who died today at the age of 83. I was sad to see the new...

Here's what I've read so far this year: Book #1 of 2019 was The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming. This was the ...

Today, I'm remembering the last normal day before the earthquake, exactly nine years ago. At 4:53 on the afternoon of January 12th, the ...

I think I just need to accept that January is a difficult month. As I look back over my blog, I find that again and again I am at that place...

Today's photo prompt was "Exposing Your Red." I posted this photo, and the words of the prompt stuck in my head until I used t...

Yesterday I posted my One Little Word for this new year, POSSIBILITY. I'm using Emily Dickinson's poem "I Dwell in Possibility...

I'm beginning 2019 with a bang by doing my first roundup. I'm starting small with SJFT (Spiritual Journey First Thursday), and may...

I'd like to think that that my "What I Learned in December" list is completely blank not because I didn't learn anything i...

Today I completed my second year of CY365 ( here's my post when I completed the first year). I'm planning to continue this practice...

This morning I finished four books and I'm guessing that's it for the year. If I finish another one today, I'll add it to the li...

Book #98 of 2018 was Circe , by Madeline Miller. Since I am an Iliad/Odyssey junkie, I loved this book. Circe is a villain in the Odyssey, ...

On this, the last Poetry Friday of 2018, I'm remembering. Remembering this year, remembering years past. In February I wrote a "Why...

Today is my first day of break, since I finished my grading yesterday after the kids were dismissed. It's also the shortest day of the y...

Book #91 of the year was The Atomic Weight of Love , by Elizabeth J. Church. This novel is the story of Meridian Wallace, an ambitious youn...

A month ago I posted a list of things I do to cheer myself up . One of them was reading poems. Sometimes it's good to read something che...

A few weeks ago, I found a poem I loved on the blog The Beauty We Love . The poem is called "Doubts and Loves," and it was writt...