“Telling my mother isn’t an option at all. Not now. Not when I turn eighteen. Not ever.” An abortion-rights rally on the second anniversary of the Supreme ...
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “The Frost Giant’s Daughter” Note: This is a ...
Rumi’s words have stirred something sacred and tender within us for centuries and still continue to do so. That deep longing to return to the truth ...
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), songwriter and musician extraordinaire, is best known for the music he made during his lifetime, with albums like Songs of ...
In January I finished up my third experience on a national book award committee for children’s books. This time, I read books for the Mildred L. ...
Love is a fire that takes two to keep burning, but one to extinguish — if the hearth of either heart is too damp with doubt, both wake up one day to ...
No Tourney Too Farby Ben von Jagow What we’re apt to remember, years from now, may not be much.Memory is tricky like ...
Once, in the golden heart of the savannah, there was a lion named Azhar whose name meant radiance. Born beneath the open sky and a full, glimmering sun, ...
Balaustrata di brezza Per appoggiare stasera La mia malinconia. (An illustration inspired by Italian poet ...
Something told me this one was not the same:The way the soldiers knocked, their nervous breaths—Their rough command: “Make up a sign, old man,The ...
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator This post was inspired by a recent ...
A poem about carnal Christianity and eternal security. Christen the walls of a brand new home, only to never live there. It is good enough to know ...