Colder by the Lake

Watching for Trouble (FOWC)

My mother instilled in us a way of approaching life that requires a pre-step, a stalling of your forward movement, just to make sure everything is really OK, before you bound ahead with the vigor and joy you’re entitled to.

Words in Motion

Things I Found in the Hedge

The latest Words in Motion is this lilting piece of visual beauty, by Kathryn (Kate) Darnell, who comes to poetry…

Poetry

Unremembered

Sun this morning, squinting into weak, strange light, unremembered, winter air dropping freeze upon the lake. Even golden beams, as…

Prompts and Challenges

#1linerWeds – On the mirror

Found on the mirror in one of our public library bathrooms.

Prompts and Challenges

Trust – Tale of an Uncle

I suppose I wasn’t thinking how much I trusted my uncle when he threw me a long way off the end of a dock into the cold water of Lake Huron when I was seven.