Selected Articles & Essays
Alleluia: A Meditation
A year after the accident Ed and I joined the choir. Vicki moved the tenors over to the opposite side to accommodate Ed’s wheelchair, and
Hear the Eco-Speak: An Essay
It was 1978 and I was eight and a half months pregnant as I sat, uncomfortably, listening to a professor at United Theological Seminary of
My Sunshine: A Meditation
This March (2004) is the third anniversary of Ed’s near fatal car accident. Each morning he thanks God for the new day, and each night
A Skit for Youth: “The Story of Adam & Eve”
THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE’S TEMPTATION: A SHORT SKIT FOR DRAMATIC READING (For Six Characters) Excerpt: “Adam and Eve lived in the beauty of
Swords into Plowshares: An Essay
The pops of a shotgun awakened me. It was a crisp, November morning, squirrel season, too beautiful to stay inside – but too dangerous to
I Choose to Call Myself: Inspiration & Feminism
The poets I know hesitate to call themselves poets. They are waiters or business women or nurses, those labels that give out a steady paycheck.
Life & Death & Doctor Shows: An Essay
I tried to write a television screenplay once. They told me my characters were too one sided. That meant that the good guys were too
Sand Between the Toes: Keeping Creativity Alive in Children
“We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose, And sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.” — A.A. Milne Sand. Doesn’t sound
The Use of Poetry in Identifying and Coping with the Emotional Tasks of Moving
Moving has been identified as a major stressor and quantified in terms of life exchange units (LEU’s) in several widely used stress surveys (Coddington, 1972;
The Use of Poetry in Exploring the Concepts of Difference and Diversity for Gifted/Talented Students
Teachers of gifted/talented (G/T) students have known for a long time that poetry is a very special medium with their students. Many G/T students write