Route to 66
Originally created to link Chicago to Los Angeles, the Mother Road was made famous through movie and music. As America’s main street, it...
Sixty-Four
The Beatles’ song sings of that age as a distant future – the way we all thought of it in our youth. It seems the earth spun around once...
Exceptional
marci madary My Grandma was 98 ½; she died on my grandpa’s birthday. He had left this world 5 ½ years earlier. Cognitively engaged until...
The Silly Side
You like the world to take you seriously, so you are often serious. Not stern or harsh, but not goofy either. More quiet, thoughtful....
Summer Solstice
Today is the day. Today is the day you bury your husband - the love of your days, the lilt in your song. Today is the day you walk away...
Without a Net
The edging light commands the lined rock to dance in orange and pink hues as the Arizona sun sinks behind the mesa. We stand and embrace,...
A Mismatched World
Everywhere I look I see unexpected partners dancing as one: Even streams of golden light and Rolling river waves; Improvising wind,...
questions of love
Some say love is red as a rose, tastes like dark chocolate while sipping deep red wine. It is holding hands and gazing at stars....
Year Three
On National Religious Brother’s Day, I wished happy greetings to the Brother whom I adore. While they could have been priests, Brothers...
A Birthday
Today is the birthday of Mother. My thoughts wander backward in time… I am wrapped with her tenderness, the smell of her love; Reminded...