Thanksgiving Day
The hibiscus, patterns in the tablecloth, remind me of home. Home. This is home now. But I wonder, do they think of us as they prepare to eat their Thanksgiving meal? Then again, maybe they wonder the...
View ArticleAnother Christmas
on walden pond Two things are certain You get into the homestretch, head for Christmas, and undoubtedly there will be fighting in the Middle East and Apple, Apple will launch yet another product. But I...
View ArticleWomen and Their Losses
He Has Forgotten He puts his head to her stomach her fifty-four year old stomach and thinks, “She carried three children here.” While en route to hospital she miscarried. The fourth, a girl, he has...
View ArticleOde to the Northern Elephant Seal
Late-November to mid-February, Elephant Seals are ashore, birthing and breeding Exciting things are happening in the elephant seal world this time of year. They are busy mating and birthing. The older,...
View ArticlePier 70, San Francisco
Winter at Pier 70 It’s cold out Sunday morning Spicy bloody Marys are in order On the waterfront a two-story space beckons with its specialties of oysters, beer, cocktails and spicy bloody Marys Urban...
View ArticleInto Cow Pastures We Sailed (A Jamaican Tale)
St. Thomas Cow Pasture Long before the bobsled team ever was my sister and I slid down mountain slopes past yellow beaked sentinels stalking about on their spectacularly long legs. Into cow pastures we...
View ArticleYe Olde Arab Fling
Crawling out of the same old womb they headed their separate ways he, a seeker of fortunes, she an itinerant with no place of her own unlikeliest of pairs. Magpie and dusky footed rolled into one, he...
View ArticlePurisima Creek Redwoods — All the World’s a Stage!
credit: http://islandwood.org In the opposite direction from Half Moon Bay, off Highway One, is the Higgins/Purisima Road entrance to the Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve. Hike through this peaceful...
View ArticleWhispering Wind
Whispering wind tells me to close my ears and listen/ as pintails hover in fields near where kestrels dive into grass accented by Indian paintbrush/ From my perch crowned with birdsfoot lotus I stand...
View ArticleOh Bay Area, You are Crazy!
Beaches with tsunami warnings? Check! Building with furniture hanging off of it? Check and check! Kids texting with post its? Check and double check! Homeless people encamping at City Hall? Check,...
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