Some men and women and chick magnets. Me? I’m a chigger magnet. Take me out to the fields or woods with you, and you won’t need insect...

One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...

Okay, so 9 a.m. isn’t exactly early, but it’s earlier than I usually take my dog for a walk, and it’s the start of what I’m hoping to...

One of our beloved aunts (Ken’s by birth, mine my marriage) is struggling for her life while dear aunts of two close friends also dwell...

20 years ago this afternoon, I sat in a Chinese restaurant in Topeka with Ken and our friend Mike Rundle, waiting for some wonton soup...

What happened? I’m not sure, but counting from March 24th (when poetry month started for me) and paraphrasing Woody Guthrie, I’ve been...

Goodnight, Texas Goodnight, Texas, land of expanse and loneliness, where the sky makes up for in height whatever you need in width....

I chose a white stove several years ago when the third of a series of used stoves we bought, hauled in, and used for a while joined that...

I used to worry about empty nest syndrome startling me awake to all the regret and guilt I have as a mother, but was too busy to feel. I...

Leaving Kansas City tonight, where I gave a poetry reading, I headed west on 87th Street, first missing the turn onto I-35 and then...

97 tornadoes later, what a difference a day makes. Although my heart is heavy for those suffering loss of home and place throughout...

For the last day and a half most Kansans have been watching the weather like a vulture watches roadkill. Storms are coming and are...

Please forgive me. I’ve been writing on another blog behind your back this week, but truly, this blog means nothing to me compared to...

The morning after Passover blanketed itself in sleep, gray sky and rain. Luckily, after moving inside to sleep about 2 a.m. when it...

Last night, I noticed that although Rube Goldberg’s descendants never claimed me as a relative, maybe I should claim them. This insight came to me after I accidentally smeared a bunch of goat milk body lotion on my favorite chair from my heels, which were in bad need of lotion because of a sinus infection that led me to take a lot of decongestant, which tends to dry out the whole body. Luckily, because my yoga pant leg was soaked — thanks to dropping and breaking a 5-gallon

All week, it’s Passover preparation: hiding all the matzoh and matzoh soup mix (along with the macaroons — do not even ask where they...

“I have no idea how we won,” Robinson said. “I really don’t know.” That really has been the Jayhawk theme this season, inexplicably...

I started writing poetry years beforehand when I was about 14, running with the usual suspects — T.S. Eliot and e.e. cummings (who were...