I picked up my fork and went to work beside him on the hillside, blood and sweat mingling under the Midwestern sun. He smiled at me and threw another thistle. “Farms and people need caretakers,” ...Read More
Share Gestation by Vernie Lynn DeMille Restraint, And not excess, Is truer power Than all the letting go Of our tongues, Our outrage, Our ire, and Our anger Which throws the reins Of our self...Read More
ShareLittle Ethel: A Christmas Story of Faith and Family (From the book “Walking My Father’s Fields: Love Letters from a Daughter of the Land” by Vernie Lynn DeMille) Princi...Read More
To color his barrier to success and wealth With the threat of death.
To throw down his worst and call it my best. To claim equal if I Step down where he stands. Beneath me where he lives, Outside of...Read More
"...She doesn't know yet,
Not in the extremity of her discomfort,
Where all the sick, all the mess, all the need
Goes when it leaves her body, her mouth,
Her heart.
She doesn't see how it stick...Read More
And when you discover,
As we all have done,
That life is balanced between the love and fear,
The hope and the despair,
The questions and the faith,
We will be there to hold you, lift you,
Carr...Read More
"This is what love looks like when you make room in your heart for the one you love to struggle, suffer, grow and change, and still have a place there. Middle age is the birthplace of lifelong lovers....Read More