Ember Glow When winter’s winds blow bleak and bare The silhouettes of frozen trees, Deep within my heart I go And warm myself within the glow Of love’s bright embers burning there, Upon the hearth of memories. […]
May 5, 2013
My Grandmother’s New Testament
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My grandmother, Ma Latty, has been gone 55 years. Her New Testament is far older than that. And the words it contains are much, much older but they still endure. The Old and New Testaments are like bedrock. People come and go but bedrock endures. It is lasting. It never changes, and it is trustworthy […]
May 4, 2013
The Mystery of the Vanishing Spring
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What happened to springtime? When I looked out my back door yesterday morning, I thought I must be dreaming. Fully an inch of snow lay on the picnic table. I listened to see if I could hear Twilight Zone music. But no, the only sound I heard was the cold wind. Sure enough, Old Man […]
May 2, 2013
Winds of Change
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For a time, I wrote feature stories for The Tahlequah Daily Press. On May 5, 1985, The Press published an article I wrote about the tornado that destroyed Peggs, Oklahoma May 2, 1920. The story below is the one that appeared in The Press. It is a long one so I’m going to post only […]
May 1, 2013
Happy May Day
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The stars are still twinkling in an early morning sky. It looks like a beautiful day. Maybe. Will the sun shine? Will we have rain? Maybe. This is the day the little May Bee flies forth and children (and some adults) will use him in their speech all day long. I’ve always pictured the May […]
Apr 30, 2013
First Rose–First Pie
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As I watered my plants last night, just before sundown, I had a welcome surprise: my first pink hedge rose is about to open. It is perfect, nestled among the green leaves and it certainly lightened my heart to see it. I thought of the last lines of a poem by Joyce Kilmer, “Poems are […]
