A Cruel Reckoning
I did not want to write these words. What I’ve wanted since midnight Election Day is simply to stay in bed with the covers pulled up to...
The Morning After
We were on a week-long trip, visiting friends in New Mexico, and celebrating my husband Ted’s birthday. His birthday is on November 8, so...
Promising
On election night, like many of us did in one form or another, I turned off my phone to sleep, woke up in the middle of the night,...
The Grief Year
2024 was my year of grieving. In March, after ten years of struggling with one form of cancer after another, my sweet father passed away...
No, We Are Definitely Not in Kansas Anymore
As a young child, I was terrified by the Wicked Witch of the West in the Hollywood adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz . The...
Down Along the Arkansas River
I voted about three weeks early. I snapped a photo of myself with my "I voted" sticker and posted it on Xitter with the statement, "I...
A brutal cleansing
On election morning, the first snow showed on the dry hills above town. Snow line is stark in the mountains, whiteness meets the dark...
If Hope is the Thing with Feathers
If hope is the thing with feathers, then hope is also the thing with a beak. The thing with claws. Hope is the thing with hooves, too....
My Third Walk
My Third Walk begins in the wind, the path slightly muddy from the rain that fell as this storm began and now from the snow melting once...
Reading the Signs
It is late October in Southern Utah. Lingering summer temperatures have confused the trees, their leaves still green, not gold nor brown...