This is the seventh installment in this series. You can find the earlier installments by clicking on the Reclamation tag. Thanks for visiting. When I was a teenaged Jehovah's Witness, the church released a book called Reasoning From the Scriptures which was full of scenarios we might run into while preaching from door to door. … Continue reading Reclamation Part 7
Reclamation Part 4
This is the fourth installment about my multi-section poem responding to Robert Frost's "The Gift Outright." Here's a link to parts 1, 2 and 3. When I was young, the world felt impossibly small to me, but simultaneously too large to fathom. By young I mean the time when this poem takes place, so high … Continue reading Reclamation Part 4
Family and Facebook
I haven't been close to my family outside of my daughter for a long time. Even my sister and I have been distant of late, both overwhelmed by the space between us and the pressures of our lives. (She's had it worse, by far--her husband has had incredible health problems, and the economy caused her … Continue reading Family and Facebook
Another Poem to Love 