Running to Beat Batten Disease

On Saturday, April 12, my regular walking buddy, Carol Baldwin, and I got up a little earlier than usual for our walk.  We got in the car for this one, and drove to Harris Road Middle School in Concord, where we were just in time to pick up and change into our blue...

ONE MORE POEM FROM THE ARCHIVES

I’m allergic to cats, but before I realized that, we had a wonderful cat named Millie.  My son, Tom, brought her home one day and she quickly became a member of our family…until allergies forced me to give her up.  She made out like a bandit during the last...

A POEM FROM MY PERSONAL ARCHIVES

In keeping with poetry month, I am posting here the original poem that sparked the inspiration for my forthcoming book, CRAZY.  It was the first of twenty poems that I wrote as a cathartic exercise to deal with my mother’s bipolar disorder.  It was one of...