by mary1988 | Dec 30, 2024 | 2024
Following November’s election, it was tempting to tuck myself into a cocoon of comfortable retirement—after all, I am in my 70s. But I cannot find peace in that decision. God gifted me the ability to think, to write, to observe and photograph the beauty of this planet...
by mary1988 | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024
for Mother She agreed to move to respite carewith its unfamiliar view and borrowed chairsso that I might not worry while on vacation. At ninety-seven, she did notwant to leave her home of nine-plus years, her independence, her schedule, her...
by mary1988 | Nov 18, 2024 | 2024
Sleeping Bear (the small perched dune atop the cliff of moraine) with the Manitou Islands in the distance “Put Your Oxygen Mask on First”like Mother Bearwith her two cubsfleeing the ragingfires of Wisconsinand forging the watersof Lake Michiganone hundred...
by mary1988 | Nov 11, 2024 | 2024
plodding along the streethead downafraid of fallingheel to toe heel to toein the early frostof autumncoldsadscaredheel to toeheel to toeYou take my handand I look upas dawn’s lightlavishes the earthwith exuberanceheel to toeheel to toeI will not fallheel to toeheel to...
by mary1988 | Oct 28, 2024 | 2024
As we motor-sail through the Manitou PassageI lean into distant memories of forget-me-nots populating Pyramid Pointthe red trillium peeking through shadows on South Manitou Islandthe surprise snow blanketingthe dunes of Sleeping Bearand add the pink rainbow of...
by mary1988 | Oct 16, 2024 | 2024
He erasedthe smileshe used to weareverywhereand now, guarded,gifts onlyto the robinawakening with songat daybreak. “I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women,” Donald Trump said in a 2005 conversation caught on a hot mic. “I just start kissing them, it’s like a...
