June 8 2026
I’ve recently been reading Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes and so Icarus is fresh on my mind, but today’s LexPoMo poem (Icarus) is in fact an ekphrastic poem inspired by the featured image. The poems I gathered today feel very much of this moment in time but I am finding hope…
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June 7 2026
Lighthouses always fascinate me even though all my people are of the land, but I am not alone with this love of the light and those who tend it so: Do We Still Need Lighthouses? My poem answers that question and the featured lighthouse above is one I have visited many time. I know many…
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June 6 2026
Today my poem for LexPoMo was inspired by a poem (The Weavers Were the First to Know) that I loved sharing with my students. It is a beautifully layered poem that never fails to work on me. While Tender does not match the power of its inspiration I am proud of its layers. Today’s gleanings…
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June 5 2026
Lucille Clifton is not the first and I am certainly not the last to write about this dangerous season of life when women turn into their own, so today I offer up: A Dangerous Season. And plucked fresh from the LexPoMo vine: Each tasty treat an inspiration to write! Image by Bohdan Chreptak from Pixabay
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June 4 2026
Today I posted a poem that caused me untold agony to write but am so very happy with the result inspired by N. Scott Momaday’s “The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee”. It is so hard to capture all that you wish for a child and the future but here is A Blessing. Today’s poetry offerings include…
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June 3 2026
Earlier this year I took a deep dive into cowboy stories in an attempt to better understand white American men so we can collectively work to heal them and the damage they have caused (domestically and abroad). I still believe that we have given them all the tools and reading is an important one so:…
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June 2 2026
Today’s LexPoMo poem is I Want To Remember… and was pleased to encounter some old friends as I slipped into the stream of poetry for today’s highlighted poems: I always enjoy my LexPoMo visits. They give me so much energy for the day and so much inspiration to write! Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay
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June 1 2026
June has finally arrived – and on a Monday which makes it even more delicious. I am very excited about this year’s LexPoMo for a number of reasons not least of which is that my first dip of the toe brought me seven delightful poems before I could even pause for breath. What a delicious…
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Manufactured Intimacy
Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human (NPR). In this fourth industrial revolution, the priority must be “the protection of employment opportunities and the irreplaceable…
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Milestones
I am turning 60 years old this week. Part of me desires no fuss and bother. I’ve long gotten over any excitement about birthdays in general and mine in specific. And yet…a dear friend never made it to her 60th birthday and another lost her battle with cancer only months after reaching that milestone so…
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Life Preservers
My family is going through a season of transition. Just in our immediate family I am retiring and our son is changing jobs, cities, and states as well as completing his MBA studies. In our extended family we are celebrating births, weddings, and other job transitions as well as coping with grief and illness. Mix…
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Celebrate Teaching
This is Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4 to May 8) and also happens to be the last week a teaching career which has spanned four decades so I thought it might be fun to think and write about teaching this week. Today I have been thinking about the teachers I have loved or loathed or…
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