Love, Words & Poetry

I open with another poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, read our love letters from our eighth wedding anniversary, and close with a poem for our daughter who celebrated her birthday yesterday.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A lighthearted remembrance of stroller adventures, holding hands in church, and diving headlong into Daylight Savings Time.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a dark poem that ends in hope, rather like Holy Week that begins today for Christians. Our love letters talk about hope for the weekend, and I close with a poem about a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, appropriate to the Jubilee of St. Francis that Catholics celebrate this year.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A band concert pulls up a tribute to the French horn in my new book, our love letters celebrate endearing qualities, and "Green Inebriation" reappears, revised, as spring inevitably will come.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem written after a dinner we shared overlooking La Jolla Cove, our love letters about new demands on our time and attention after our move to California, and another poem reflecting on our fifth daughter.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems from the pre-publication copy of my book, Stringing the Bow, and our love letters from my first attempt to deal with my depression.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at the ramifications of an encounter with a snake in my childhood, read our love letters on doing things we like, and end with my only sonnet on green visions in Dallas.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The first poem tells the story of growing up from Texas to Oklahoma to New Jersey and discovering love at 17. Our love letters share how we grew more deeply in love after our Marriage Encounter Weekend, and the closing poem traces the journey to home.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

In view of the upcoming publication of my book, Stringing the Bow, I read the first two poems and our love letters on what keeps us together as a couple.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

We go from high school chemistry to the Kumeyaay indigenous people in the San Diego area to the lush green of Southern California winter.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

This episode includes a snowy day at the Empire State Building, our love letters about spending time together, and ends with an image of our granddaughter as a vigil light.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Ways to be thankful, from words to home to love.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

A poem for the autumnal equinox, our love letters on gifts, and love music.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a Halloween poem from New Jersey, share our love letters on our new neighborhood in Northern California, and end with a poem inspired by an Annunciation statue loaned to me by my spiritual director.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem and our love letters written soon after our arrival in Northern California, and end with my most recent poem.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two poems of farewell: one for friends who have recently died of Alzheimer's, and the closing poem, which was a farewell to a young woman I met briefly in Manhattan, who seemed to sum up many of my lovely experiences when we lived in New York City. These bookend our first love letters written in Northern California.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at dance, at our love letters, and at the California sky, which was often an astonishing clear blue.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a revised poem remembering Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where I spent a large part of my childhood, read our love letters about leaving Allendale, New Jersey, for Northern California, and close with a contemporary version of the myth of Leda and the Swan.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a revision of one of my earliest poems, written when I was just getting to know Wes on the yearbook staff. Our love letters look at negative feelings, and the closing poem, which recently won 5th place in the Writer's Digest Rhyming Poem contest, goes all the way back to my delightful third-grade teacher who roller-skated with us after school.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two different versions of one poem, and share our thoughts, appropriate near the end of August, about vacations.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I introduce a newly revised poem and share our love letters on our new house.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The podcast opens in Dallas in August, where I used to run before everything heated up, shares our love letters on Wes's new job in San Francisco, and closes with a poem lamenting the death of my poetry mentor of 40 years, Colette Inez.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem written after my best friend’s brother, who was a kind religious brother, had died. It is a poem full of hope, as are our love letters and the closing poem on mercy.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems look back at a fall in Schenectady, New York, and toward our new home in Northern California, while our love letters reflect our attitudes toward the upcoming cross-country move.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I have poems about summer and almost summer bookending our love letters about flying to California to look for a house.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a poem on the parable of the prodigal son, which has often been described as being about a prodigal father, pivot to our love letters on selling our house after we had made the decision to move to California, and return to a poem seeing God as a Trinity dancing.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

The poems that serve as bookends are another very early one, from my poetry workshop with New York poet Colette Inez before I got married, and my most recent one, with a look at tuning forks and our love letters on our new baby in between.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two Valentines bookend our love letters on being married.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Beginning with an overview of the New Jersey spring we would leave behind if we moved to California, I share our love letters, where we considered our decision, and leap forward to May 2025 and our first granddaughter's graduation from Law School.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I move from evening to how we manage conflict in our love letters to how I thrive with margin in my life.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look back to my visits to Mexico in high school when I was stunned by the vibrant beauty of the bougainvillea everywhere, and the word of the day is Teotihuacán, the ruins we explored when I was in Mexico with my parents. Our love letters speak of the changes we experienced after welcoming our third child to our family, and the closing poem celebrates scenes from life with our son, our sixth child, a fitting end to this podcast on Mother's Day.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems focus on blues: blue days and blue space. Our love letters reveal our feelings about Wes returning to work after his time at home with our new baby, Amy.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Beautiful seasons and our love letters on whether to move to Northern California.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read a poem reflecting ideas on change by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, share our thoughts on a major change in our lives, and end with a trip to Muir Woods.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I have two very different poems that illustrate how birds lead us to freedom, along with love letters on how we feel about the other's work.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a recent poem on a fractal flower, include our love letters on how we spent our weekends, and close with a reflection on time and timelessness.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My first poem is the result of a major revision of 5 lines I dashed down just as I was finishing the work I needed to do in order to graduate from college. Our love letters look forward to the birth of our third child, and the closing poem is from last year.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I open with a poem about Northern California, where I resisted the changed geography from the East Coast, share our love letters as we looked forward to the birth of our third child, born in New York City but in 3 months accompanied us all to Concord, California. I end in Southern California, where I've lived now for over 40 years.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I look at marriage in Genesis, in our love letters, and dream of summer in the middle of winter in the final poem.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Two poems written as I was trying to adjust to the geographical differences between New Jersey and California bracket love letters we wrote as we were discovering new relationships with God.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I include two versions of "St. John's Alphabet Fugue," 30 years apart, with a description of a fugue, and our love letters on our oldest daughter starting her own "alphabet fugue" in kindergarten.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I discover winter victories in the garden and in poetry making, along with our love letters on the masks we wear and how they affect our relationship. For an overall picture of what we learned during our marriage, you might also want to order my book, Spectacular Marriage: 10 Surprising Ways to Divorce Proof Your Marriage, available at Barnes & Noble or on my website, greenvisionsbooks.godaddysites.com. May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems today look at the expected birth of one of our children, and the blessing of marriage, and our love letters reflect our feelings as we approached the upcoming birth.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I read two different versions of my poem, "December 8," and our love letters look at how our approach to Christmas has changed since we started sharing our feelings more deeply.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I begin with a modern take on the Greek myth of Apollo and Daphne, read our love letters on our children's love, and end with a salute to the full moon.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

I detail moments of grace, whether early roses, love letters on how to give more abundantly to others, or end-of-season gardens.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Poems bookend this podcast, with a foray into paint colors, and love letters on poetry, too!May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My newest poem is a reflection on a verse from Ephesians that sees us as being built into a temple for the Spirit. I use two lines from the poem to provide our phrase of the week. Our love letters ponder how we can make each other first in our lives. And I close with a short poem dedicated to Emily Dickinson, which has a slight echo of her inimitable voice.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

Starting with a poetic reflection on marriage in Genesis and a look at "the serpent," our love letters show how dialogue can inform decisions, and end with a joyful poem celebrating marriage.May words add more love and poetry to your days!

My poems reflect on crossing the border into fall, and our love letters focus on all that we have gained through daily dialogueMay words add more love and poetry to your days!