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*photo by Craig Dawsey We think and then we feel. Thinking keeps us out of trouble. Feeling helps us heal. So laugh out loud And...

It’s seedling time soon for transplanting and planting in your garden. I have a few casual techniques and few stories in my book, Casual...

My St. Patrick’s Day Cactus The flower of the hour You lay in wait Beyond your date, Your scheduled date To flower. Oh you flower of the...

Long shadows Bleak stinging wind Days getting longer Before Spring is born again. Brave buttercups Punching through the hoarfrost Like...

FLASH CRACKLE CRASH BANG BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM LIGHTNING I sloshed the night darkening path, Running before a storm, Drenched in the...

Stand on the Edge On the ledge Let the spirit of the moment Wash over you Lift you To lightly soar the impossible Mountain heights Hold...

A high bridge can trigger a panic attack! You think the tiger will kill you. You think you’re gonna die. But you’re not. Panic Attacks...

O you my Crimson Christmas Amaryllis! Why? Why do you make me wait Till almost Spring Before your beauty Blooms? Damn!

*photo by Erin The road winds Twists and twines Among these Mysteriously beautiful Appalachians. Upward! Upward I climb Round bend and...

“Stop Negative Thinking.” We think and then we feel. And therein is the answer to solving depression. Feelings are the natural result of...

“Games are won in practice“ -Yogi Berra

I never promised her a rose garden But I gave her a place to live. I never promised her kids But we had three fine ones I never promised...

Miles behind me, Oh so many Adventurous Miles behind me, I stopped only briefly, To catch up to me, Only to observe myself, My progress...

*photo by KaitlinTen TAA! DAA! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Let’s start it out right with my new Insights into the psychology of everyday life. I...

*photo by me BEGIN FEEL hear see smell taste THINK E SPEAK V DO O LOVE L laugh and cry smile, joke & play...

Author’s Note: Yes! Yes, it’s a self portrait. Scribbled it myself. Right handsome likeness, I thought, so I included it with the hand...

John 3:16 May God be with you and your loved ones on this holiest of celebrations of the birth of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. My He...

“And they came Willow Tree Silhouette From nigh...

And suddenly a tree appeared *our humble Christmas memory tree Out of nowhere, As if it had been there all along, Or perhaps in a...

My neighborly Santa You see Brought me Under the tree Today Wednesday A very tasty Cranberry Pastry I will now Somehow Need the recipe...