[Story Route readers will recognize the name of one of my favorite writers. He's the author of "Narratives for Dummies" that appeared on that blog. What I didn't mention there is that Sterling had a forty-year career as a family doctor, much of it in rural Alabama and rural Cariboo, in the wild heart...
Marilyn Raymond is one of my favorite writers, always eloquent, perceptive, thoughtful. When she shared this poem with me, I asked her permission to publish it here. I get a catch in my throat every time I read it. Marilyn is also the author of That Apple, Baba Yaga, and Sucking on Stones. ©...
© Cheryl Thomas One hot sunny afternoon I was sitting in a forest glade that was located on the way to my home in Avola, British Columbia. In front of me was a squirrel midden that was so huge it took up an entire tree stump—all that was left of a tree some 3...
What my community, my world, would look like if there was no violence against women or children. ©2003 Donna Milner There is no ‘us’ or ‘them’ There is only We We are one We are whole We are the people of the world And we the Children of the world Play in our yards,...
At the Unitarian Fellowship of Kelowna service last Sunday, Kelly Hamilton not only read this poem to us. She printed it in the bulletin, for all of us to take home in our hands as well as in our hearts. I love the images – the heat of memories cracking through the lava dome...
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