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Why capitalize “I” but not “me”?Is I more important than Me?Is Me not of equal weight to I? Sure, grammar gurus, I is a subject,the doer, the mover of a sentence.Me is the receiver, the object— but the object of … Continue reading →

Honey, cut yourself some slack.Give yourself a break. Ease up already.Whatever it is, stop it. Instead, get yourself outside.Look around. Spring is putting onher annual fashion show, and it’sa doozy. Just yesterday, you zoomedby a bush of exploding rhododendronsspreading lavender … Continue reading →

I don’t know why I say this to her,as if she’ll understand what I mean— as if I understand what this means,aside from the rhythm-y rhyme— but Poki has learned the differencebetween chicken cat food in a can and actual … Continue reading →

It is good to have an end to journey toward;but it is the journey that matters, in the end.—Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Left Hand of Darkness,” 1969 ••• And a good friend to do it with helps, too.Someone who … Continue reading →

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. ― Mark Twain, from “The Art of Authorship,” 1890, quoting his friend Josh Billing ••• … Continue reading →

One bright morningas I cut your hair on the deckwithin sight of the oceanwhooshing its way into shore, I stop, look up at the sound—not the familiar call of geese,but the whoosh of hundredsof wings, dark arrows overhead,migrating north along … Continue reading →

My mother tells me she found her first dead flyin her wine glass last week. “It’s fly-in-wine season,” she says to my puzzledlook. This as her happy azaleas bloom theirpastel heads off, and the pink dogwood showsoff in the front … Continue reading →

Let’s see your rain dance, baby.C’mon, honey, give it all you’ve got.Don’t worry if anybody’s watching,Do your thing, don’t give it a second thought. —Antsy McClain, “Rain Dance” ••• Because weather on our coast travels west to east,the drops that … Continue reading →

I was hoping that the 26-second video that goes with today’s poem, “Water in conversation with other water,” would appear at the bottom of the email you received with the poem. Apparently it did not. To see the video at … Continue reading →

We stop to watch from the bluff-top trailas down on the rain-soaked sand two children work to carve a channelto convince water falling over nearby rocks to snake gracefully intorising surf. They work so hard at what nature does all … Continue reading →