So, life is worth less than smoke if one cannot breathe! And thinking I had developed a sudden asthma, I went to a pulmonologist here in Michigan and after an EKG was told I was in atrial fibrillation! Long story…

This is one long poem with many parts Myrrha of The Sea In the beginning was her sea — We swim in it — the salt thick on our hair. We offer red wine to the brine. We sleep on…

In my husband's big family, over the decades of our releationship, we went to many a meal at his parents' house and they came to our house for many a meal. We were talking last night about how raucous those…

[characters continuing!] June's 16th birthday came and went with minimal fuss. Her favorite chicken and noodles takeout from the only Chinese place in town and a movie with friends. Spring had quickly given way to an assertive summer heat that…

I had a little Sorrow. It stayed until the morrow. Then I talked directly to it, As if I truly knew it. Little Sorrow, how are you? Little Sorrow, why so blue? --

I had a little sorrow. It’s fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that sorrow went My heart was sure to go. I had a little sorrow Made out of Life’s fine clay. When it was dry and ready, The…

In the beginning were the fates spinning their threads. They spin our karma, our Kali-Ma, Maya, magic. They are weaving the dream of this life into form. They weave the elements i The thread was not made of ordinary fiber,…

It wasn't that I was scared. I was absolutely terrified. I laughed, to cover it up. "This is no laughing matter--it's very serious!" said Delia. Her jaw tensed as she kept her eyes on the twists and turns of the…

Is that even remotely possible for me? To be not scared? Looking back through her decades of a life filled with chances taken, choices made, bets placed ( some lost but mostly won) she sat in the comfort of her…

Flore. "Where would you go with a one-way ticket?" the improv instructor gave as the starting line. Flore exhaled, closing her eyes a beat longer than a blink. She took a step forward from her place in the circle. "I'm…