So, Tis An Author You Wish To Be

So, Tis An Author You Wish To Be So, Tis An Author You Wish To Be! So, tis an author You wish to be! And, why, I ask, Do you come to me? Because, I write so Much, you say, So many pretty lines Throughout the day. True, it is my passion; It must be […]

I’m Alone

I’m Alone With only my memories – I sit alone on the hill and watch the sunset… Faces float by in surreal silence And, In words only I can hear, each tells a story of My life, unadorned with gratuitous Words of praise and solicitude… With each face,     With each story, I know […]

Sadness and Smiles

Sadness and Smiles Christmas season brings a spiritual subtlety of kindness and giving, minds somehow thawing from a year of national and international turmoil, a bleakness that the heart and soul rejects for this magical time when most of us honor the birthday of Jesus…the Man, the Deity, who lived among us and brought Faith […]

When Angels Come

When Angels Come In those hours and days of misery when hope cannot find its way to my pain, there comes an inscrutable stirring within that calms and brings me a modest peace. There was a time when I was driving from Decatur, Illinois to Springfield, Illinois. On a long stretch of two-lane highway, behind […]

Melodie’s Magic

Melodie’s Magic Melodie had the face of an angel, her soft blue eyes and Madonna face framed with long blond curls and a smile melted the heart. There was instant magic the first moment I met this child of deplorable chance. By marriage Melodie was the daughter of the daughter of my wife’s step-mother. One […]

How Will I find You?

Thinking one day of my mortality and the next dimension, my thoughts turned to Julie, my wife, my love, and how I would find her there in the land that only the soul can know. These are the words that came to me: * How Will I Find You?  There in the light blue sky […]

Enigma Of The Soul

How often do you use the word, ‘Soul?’ How often do you think about your ‘Soul?’ Mirriam-Webster defines ‘Soul’ as: 1. the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life 2. a: the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe So, that’s enough, right? The two […]