Category: Writing
Father, Farmer, Philosopher
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
Earning My Eulogy
"I want to earn my eulogy. So someday in my children’s past, They’ll remember me as I wished I could be."... Read More
Little Ethel: A Christmas Story of Faith and Family
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
Reproductive Equality
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
Dinner Guests
And reason bids me obey The law-giving Jehovah, With the exact obedience Of the law-living Christ.... Read More
Cathedrals
"I turn at the latch to see her, Standing old, broken and creaking in places, The weight of faith alone To keep her still standing..."... Read More
Simplicity After Complexity
"...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