Primum non nocere!   No matter how you scrub the room and hide your face behind a mask, I know you hear the suction sound from deep...

Two young deer together roadside...the death of innocence.

No ocean's deep and wide enough to rinse your palette.

...and look into the eyes of God.

From Pulitzer Prize winning DELIGHTS and SHADOWS, "Mother," by Ted Kooser

Reviews and comments for Pea Soup: New and Selected Poems.

The chapter book, Finding Chloe, never would have happened if not for Chloe's imagination superpowers.

Mom's Choice Awards Honoring Excellence for Finding Chloe

Praise for Finding Chloe

The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters. He restoreth my

Do not fret because of those who do evil. Trust in the Lord and do good.

Has yesterday gone, or is it dozing in the upstairs room, or combing the basement to find its place among my things.

The bully stomped in, loud-mouthed and tossing cherry bombs at the sky, their flash unmasking thunderheads...

I caught its movement out of the corner of my eye while overhauling an old poem in the middle of the night