We briefly leap ahead in time from moving to California with baby Amy to the present, when Amy needed an emergency C-section to deliver their ninth baby, Damian Augustine. The first poem is also current, but our love letters are from our time in Northern California, and the second poem is also from my adjustment to the very different geography in California. Enjoy the time travel!

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Our life was chaotic when we moved from New Jersey to Northern California with two little girls and a new baby, selling our house on the East Coast and buying a new one in California, and Wes taking the California Bar Exam. We plunged into writing talks and giving Marriage Encounter Weekends, and I only had time for scraps of poetry during the two years we lived there.

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Reflections on Northern California summers, chaparral, dry dialogues, and the Southern California desert.

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Two poems from our life in Northern California bookend our love letters that reflected on the first.

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We run the gamut of emotions today, from our daughter's trips to the Emergency Department in Canada to our love letters looking forward to giving our first Marriage Encounter Weekend, to a poem about celebration.

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Wes and I dialogue on my first published poem; years later I was dazzled into a poem on the Perseid meteor shower during a visit to Oregon.

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I'm including the longest poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, in this podcast, along with love letters about our feelings when Wes came home from work.

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I open with another poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, read our love letters from our eighth wedding anniversary, and close with a poem for our daughter who celebrated her birthday yesterday.

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A lighthearted remembrance of stroller adventures, holding hands in church, and diving headlong into Daylight Savings Time.

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I open with a dark poem that ends in hope, rather like Holy Week that begins today for Christians. Our love letters talk about hope for the weekend, and I close with a poem about a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, appropriate to the Jubilee of St. Francis that Catholics celebrate this year.

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