About twenty years ago (!) I wrote a Christmas song for my choir at Assumption Chapel, called Star of Hope and Freedom. I wrote the words and music, and my choir director Illyana Vermeersch, arranged it for choir. We performed it once, and then the Chapel closed and we all went our separate ways. This […]
So. Just had another visit from Carlo, The Wonder Tech, who found the magic pixie dust to make FireFox and WordPress like each other again, and I can now announce that this morning I learned my poem “crazy over ninety” has been accepted by Windsor Review for their Whiskey Sour City anthology coming out in […]
I’m still radiating that BookFest glow and will be for some time to come, I’m sure. On Thursday evening, I was captivated by Marty Gervais’ account of the seventh son of a seventh son, warmed by Peter Hrastovec’s unabashed love of family, alternately tickled and saddened by John B. Lee’s story of the 87 year […]
Now, I know what you’re thinking. That nasty ole Penny-Anne is bragging about losing a few pounds. Well so what? Big deal! And just who does she think she is anyway?! Steady, gentle reader. I have not, sadly, lost any weight, and that remains a mysterious and ongoing struggle for me. But I did cut […]
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.