Love, Words & Poetry

I look at dance, at our love letters, and at the California sky, which was often an astonishing clear blue.

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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 clos…

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 …

I read two different versions of one poem, and share our thoughts, appropriate near the end of August, about vacations.

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I introduce a newly revised poem and share our love letters on our new house.

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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 poe…

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.

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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.

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I have poems about summer and almost summer bookending our love letters about flying to California to look for a house.

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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 …

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 …

Two Valentines bookend our love letters on being married.

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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 f…

I move from evening to how we manage conflict in our love letters to how I thrive with margin in my life.

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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…

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.

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Beautiful seasons and our love letters on whether to move to Northern California.

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Beautiful seasons and our love letters before we finally decided to begin before we decided to divide to Northern California.

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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.

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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.

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