Music and Blessings

Chaparral and Desert (7/11/2026)

Reflections on Northern California summers, chaparral, dry dialogues, and the Southern California desert. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Contra Costa County Collection (6/28/2026)

Two poems from our life in Northern California bookend our love letters that reflected on the first. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Season 4, Episode 13 (6/21/2026), Emergency Department visits and celebrations

We run the gamut of emotions today, from our daughter's trips to the Emergency Department in Canada to our love letters looking forward to giving our first Marriage Encounter Weekend, to a poem about celebration. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

From New Jersey to Oregon 6/6/2026, 2:21:34 PM

Wes and I dialogue on my first published poem; years later I was dazzled into a poem on the Perseid meteor shower during a visit to Oregon. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Painting and Coming Home

I'm including the longest poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, in this podcast, along with love letters about our feelings when Wes came home from work. May words add more love and poetry to your days!