What Is a Lanyard, Anyway? The only bad thing about learning Billy Collins' poem "The Lanyard" by heart is that now I can read it without laughing. …
My Mother's Diary
My Mother’s Diary: Valentine’s Chai
When a Poem Finds You Today I'm writing at Substack about a poem that found me, one titled "Valentine's Chai." It's both here, in the section of my …
Everything That Makes You … Divergent
My friend Laura Lynn Brown published “Everything That Makes You Mom” last year, but I didn’t read it until this year. What follows—last Wednesday and …