from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
“I am rings. Rings of happy and sad seasons. Thick rings, and thin. An old tree, waiting to be cut down, or struck by lightning. I am rings of history and fear.”
Savory Meatball Soup
A delicious, sweet & savory soup with winter vegetables. The bite size meatballs are baked first to lock in the flavor.
The Attic of Memory and Dream
Sometimes I don’t recognize America. Sometimes I feel lost, as though I put my foot on the doorstep and got wooshed off on an adventure that took me too far from home…
The Jink
from “Memoirs of the Grey Ranger”
I came from the Wastefield-Barrio on Orous and I am Jemini Delagrassi, a girl who got misprinted on one side.
In My Mother’s Steps
At my age, my children are beginning to worry about me living “way out” on a ranch.