by Rhonda Brown | Feb 23, 2021 | Recent Poems, COVID, Pain
Detour Through Grief My start as a blogger was pretty tentative anyway—and the months since have been kind of hard to write about. Right after Christmas, all three of us in our household (my husband and I and our adult son) came down with COVID. Our cases were very... 
by Rhonda Brown | Dec 28, 2020 | Christmas Carols, Recent Poems
Listening to Christmas Carols One of my favorite things about Christmas is listening to Christmas carols, with their glorious music and the wealth of theological riches that’s packed into them. It’s hard to name a favorite, but if I were pressed it would probably be... 
by Rhonda Brown | Nov 16, 2020 | Recent Poems, Dance
Dance Practice Saturday, a week ago, I had a deliciously unusual experience, one that completely charmed me with the way its disparate elements came together. My friend Patty invited me to come with her to the worship time at a Messianic congregation down in Chandler,... 
by Rhonda Brown | Oct 9, 2020 | Recent Poems
I Do Not Yearn for Wings I don’t remember when I developed a fascination with winged creatures, but somewhere along the line birds, especially, got my attention, and I also take special note of dragonflies and butterflies. I never had the patience to develop an... 
by Rhonda Brown | Oct 7, 2020 | Being a Christian, My History
How I Became a Christian Like the process of becoming a poet, that of becoming a Christian was also a rather circuitous one for me. But my identification as a Christian is far more important than that of Poet and warrants some significant attention. Ditching a... 