Ahoy, gentle readers! I know I’ve been gone an unforgivably long time, and you deserve to know why. One day about a month ago my computer refused to boot. It seemed to want to start up, but then it was as if it said, “Naw. I’m too tired. It’s been a long six years. I’m […]
If you were to judge my life by the past four months, you’d never know I was a writer. It’s been goofy, friends, absolutely goofy. And since I don’t care to be alone in my goofiness, here’s an update: first, and happily, The Mister and I are about three pounds below our goal weight, so […]
A professor wrote these words on the board and asked his class to punctuate them – “Woman without her man is nothing.” All the men in the class punctuated it like this: Woman without her man, [comma] is nothing [period]. All the women in the class punctuated it thusly: Woman: [colon] without her, [comma] man […]
As many of you know, I’m working on my second collection of poetry, this time about Mary Magdalene, entitled appropriately enough, The Magdalene Poems. Been working on it for over two years now. Well, a little while ago I started reading Anita Shreve’s excellent book, The Weight of Water, one of the finest books I’ve […]
holy cards: dead women talking is a collection of narrative poems focusing on the histories and legends of women saints from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman traditions.
holy cards: dead women talking is a collection of narrative poems focusing on the histories and legends of women saints from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman traditions.