At my age, maturity should be a given. Sometimes, I am, indeed, a mature woman of a certain age, acting with all the propriety I can manage. Other times, not so much. But, beyond how we look and act, what does it really mean to be mature at the various ages of our lives? Maturity […]
Clearly, I am too old to rap… but why should the young people have all the fun? In reality, the rhythm of this poem suggested itself, perhaps because of what I wanted to say when I set out to write it. It has been an education to meet, fall in love with, and marry my […]
The date in the title gives the subject of this poem away. Just after Donald Trump became president, the world changed for many of us, becoming a place where it was safe to openly hate people of color or non-normative sexual orientation. As a white woman married to a Black woman, my security in the […]
I wrote this poem based on words that I spoke at my husband’s Celebration of Life. We were together for over thirty years and much of my life was built in partnership with him. No single poem could include all the intricacies of that experience, but here is a start. Rhymes and Threads I did […]