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Excerpted from my October 2024 newsletter. Poetry This is an older poem of mine, and one that arrived somewhat fully formed an hour or so after the incident it describes. […]

Excerpted from my September 2024 newsletter.  Poetry I’m always keeping an eye out for signs of shifting seasons. Looking at leaves is one of my favorite ways to notice small […]

Excerpted from my July 2024 newsletter.  Poetry There’s been a massive heat wave in California and it’s been a hot month across the Northern Hemisphere in general. In my wanderings […]

Excerpted from my June 2024 newsletter.  Poetry Spiders get a bad rap sometimes. They’re often seen as weird or creepy, or vilified in stories and nursery rhymes. But I’ve always […]

Excerpted from my March 2024 newsletter.  Poetry As I’ve shared in the past, many of my poems start with observations of the natural world. The poems can take a range […]

Excerpted from my February 2024 newsletter.  Poetry I wrote this grief poem a little over a year ago. While writing it, I thought about how pervasive grief is after the […]

Excerpted from my January 2024 newsletter.  Poetry In November I had the opportunity to attend the opening of The Ohana Center for Child and Adolescent Behavior Health in Monterey, California. [...]

Excerpted from my December 2023 newsletter.  Poetry Here in Northern California, we’re a few weeks into the rainy season. (It usually doesn’t rain at all in California during the summer, […]

Excerpted from my October 2023 newsletter.  Poetry The poem below is another piece of writing that arose from observing the garden out my window. One day, I saw a squirrel […]

Excerpted from my September 2023 newsletter.  Poetry Many of my poems arise from the simple act of noticing: noticing what’s happening around me, and then noticing my own response to […]