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I hate it when children say, "I didn't ask to be born." I want to shake them and ask, "Life is that bad?"
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Thoreau said we need to fine-tune our hearts to nature. Amen to that!
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Poetry forms like the villanelle give poems a glass in which to pour words and emotions.
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How many civilizations were lost by a word unintended or ambiguous? I come to praise language, not to bury it!
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We've heard the old argument, "It's my body!" Often the person making that insistence believes it's a body he or she can mistreat, but who ..
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The worst kind of death is the death of love, for there is no crueler grief to overcome.
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Does the insect, the star, the tree, the human all share a common language within the core of us?
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When I was a boy who delighted in reading books, I wished I could be outgoing like my classmates. When I grew to be an outgoing man, I missed those t..
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A summer scene chances are we won't get to see or understand.
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If love is what makes the heart afraid, then grief is the object of that fear.
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