Every summer for the past seven I’ve made a trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Year after year, its wild beauty calls me back. (You can read about my 2010 visit here.) Visiting the U.P. unsettles me. I’m enough a suburbanite that I feel on edge in a place with so many trees and so [...]
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Poems for the Porkies
Posted in Edward Muir, For Whom the Bell Tolls, For Whom the Bell Tolls, John Donne, Mary Oliver, Poems, Poems for the Porkies, The Confirmation, Why I Wake Early, tagged culture, michigan, poetry, travel on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of gifts
Posted in A couple of gifts, In Praise of Craziness of a Certain Kind, Mary Oliver, Poems, Poetry found, Poets, tagged A couple of gifts, Christmas, culture, elf, Mary Oliver, poem, poetry on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A dear friend gave me this elf for my birthday. Nothing better than a gift you didn’t know you wanted, a gift that makes you feel that someone has studied you, understood you and desired to please you. I’m delighted with this felted fellow! I see hours of amusement ahead with his pose-able body and [...]
