Posts Tagged ‘family’
Skating Champions of the World: Roller Derby Cousins
Cousins, we were the champion roller-derby skaters of Grandma’s basement …
Read MoreUpon leaving, saying farewell to friends
“In the end all we have are stories.
Stories are what we are,
What we become.”
Swish, Basketball
I am honored to have a poem included in What is a Friend?, the newest poetry anthology from Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong. (Listen to me read this essay. Scroll…
Read MoreWalk in beauty
Hozho. May we all walk in beauty. In harmony. In kindness.
Read MoreKindness to All
I am the child of immigrants. My father’s father was orphaned at 14 and walked from the family farm near Prague to northern Germany to buy passage on a ship…
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