Going Places For the Summer

Going Places For the Summer

Going Places For the Summer The last few months have not been about writing.  The last several months have been about making things and going places—so that’s what I have to write about. The “making things” Grandson Alex graduated from high school in May, and I...
How I Became a Christian

How I Became a Christian

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...
How I Got to Be a Poet

How I Got to Be a Poet

How I Got to Be a Poet I know writers who began to dictate stories to a sympathetic mother at age four, before they could write themselves, and  poets who began writing poetry in elementary school and have never stopped. I am not of that tribe. Dutifully, I completed...