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To the Roots!

Dear Friends ~ If you are, as I am, in love with the woods, you will want to hear this Radio Lab podcast, From Tree to Shining Tree. The show is a thirty-five minute, highly entertaining exploration of the “wood wide web,” the astonishing system of roots, fungi,...

New Website and New Writing Circles

Dear Friends ~ I hope this message finds you well nourished, as I have been, by the slower rhythms of summer. The focus of my work these last months has been the long avoided and much needed overhaul of my twenty-one year old website. It was time. And now—Voila!—the...

High Spring!

  Dear Friends ~ Greetings from lush Philadelphia in the middle of May! This Place  Every so often in the course of seasons comes a time when you know once again the place you have chosen to be  is the place that has chosen you. It’s like that now in azalea time...

Spring of My Spring

Dear Friends~ Here’s the news from my world–first in poetry, then in prose. Spring of my Spring He’s back again, the little bird with his drill of a song. See how he cleaves to the branch by the hanging box that swings so hopefully in the Rose of Sharon....

Crocuses!

Dear Friends~ Beautiful souls are gathering for Spring Writing Circles. The Friday group in my Mt. Airy home is well underway. An early bird deadline is coming up this Friday, March 17 for the Wissahickon Circle at The Cedars House. If you know you would like to write...

Sap is Rising

Friends~ I love sharing poetry with people. I love to be with people who are sharing what has heart and meaning for us. So I’m teaming up with my friends at the Mt Airy Art Garage for a poetry-with-jazz open mike—The Swerve this month will be hosted by yours...