Monthly Archives: January 2013

Ironically, on the morning after my mother passed (while I held her hand), since I had been pre-committed, I showed up to give a reading at the Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast, which had the mission statement, “End the Death … Continue reading →

I have been remiss in writing here because, on a daily basis, I have been going to the nursing home to tend to my mother, Carmela, age 96, who,on Sunday evening, blew her last breath to the stars.

Salt or Nothing, Love As in love when we force not loving upon our beloved So too when cooking we seldom use a heap of salt — little — at best to allow the guest the salting to their taste, … Continue reading →

In a black jacket this cold winter night arrives puffing cigarettes.

May I share with you the words of Adrienne Rich, poet, who was born in 1929 and passed this year. She wrote about Poetry, “as living language, the core of every language something that is still spoken aloud or in … Continue reading →