Ways to be thankful, from words to home to love.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A poem for the autumnal equinox, our love letters on gifts, and love music.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a Halloween poem from New Jersey, share our love letters on our new neighborhood in Northern California, and end with a poem inspired by an Annunciation statue loaned to me by my spiritual director.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem and our love letters written soon after our arrival in Northern California, and end with my most recent poem.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems of farewell: one for friends who have recently died of Alzheimer's, and the closing poem, which was a farewell to a young woman I met briefly in Manhattan, who seemed to sum up many of my lovely experiences when we lived in New York City. These bookend our first love letters written in Northern California.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at dance, at our love letters, and at the California sky, which was often an astonishing clear blue.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a revised poem remembering Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where I spent a large part of my childhood, read our love letters about leaving Allendale, New Jersey, for Northern California, and close with a contemporary version of the myth of Leda and the Swan.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a revision of one of my earliest poems, written when I was just getting to know Wes on the yearbook staff. Our love letters look at negative feelings, and the closing poem, which recently won 5th place in the Writer's Digest Rhyming Poem contest, goes all the way back to my delightful third-grade teacher who roller-skated with us after school.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two different versions of one poem, and share our thoughts, appropriate near the end of August, about vacations.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I introduce a newly revised poem and share our love letters on our new house.

May words add more love and poetry to your days!