Dad’s Day Off

Adventure was always a treasured commodity on dad’s day off. We would all sleep in well as much as possible with four little boys. I would make a delicious breakfast that included eggs, bacon, hash browns, and toast and of course gravy too.  Once that was consumed, which happened in lightening speed, cleaned up the …

My Way (Excerpt)

“Oh, what a lovely maidin it is,” Anna Lee O’Donovan proclaims as she walks through the pasture on her parents’ farm in the wee town of Killarney. This is a fishing town, but her Da is a farmer by choice. Anna Lee is a bright thirteen- year old girl with a mind of her own. …

Emerge From The Fog

Pen and paper stand in readiness poised to produce Desiring to be used to fulfill their purpose of existence And yet they wait The user of the tools sits in a fog mindless at best waiting for the words to flow But they are stuck in concrete as it were motionless - cold nearly dead …

Cycle of Life

Why does the sun rise? Why do chicken’s crow? How come morning comes so early? Why is morning’s first coffee the most satisfying?   Why does time go so fast? Why do days turn to months, and months turn to years? How does gray hair appear when wisdom finally arrives? Why does life end once …

Tree Fashions

tall and majestic ever reaching to the sky you are a home more like a statement   fashioned for every season who will adorn you?   summer - a shade of protection who will you protect? stranger alone and afraid   autumn – brilliant colors and swirling leaves who is hiding? caught in a tragedy …

Katrina

In the summer of 2005 on August 29 life it did change. She came in with a force not to be reckoned with. The winds they did blow, the waves were higher than an elephants eye. Her mission, her purpose, her driving force was destruction. Nothing left standing in her wake. A battle field of …

Long Awaited Arrival

Blessed from above, nine months is so long to wait, long awaited arrival. Birthing brings fears of the unknown. And death visited without success, his little lungs weren’t finished growing. He was struggling to breathe, so home I go with empty arms, and a heart that longs to hold him close. Long awaited arrival. My …