by Jody Seymour | Dec 11, 2023 | News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Advent. Why? The calendars we have hanging on our walls and present on our cell phones are reminders of time that passes daily. However, the Christian calendar offers an alternative measure of time. The “new year” starts not with the arrival of...
by Jody Seymour | Dec 3, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Which Wilderness? (An Advent Poem) (Editor’s note: writer and retired minister, Jody Seymour, Is taking our readers on an advent journey over the next weeks. Here is the first poem in the series.) “A voice cries in the wilderness,Prepare the...
by Lori Tate | Oct 3, 2023 | News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS G is for Grief…and Goodness The universe threw me a “gotcha” moment the other day. It started innocently enough, but then that’s the fertile ground where these moments derive their potency. They pop up unexpectedly and result in the equivalent of...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Aug 10, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Lice, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The school reported lice marching down her yellow braid onto her spelling book. She was sent home. Her sister was sent home from camp, with her own congregation of lice. At each revelation of this plague, their...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jul 17, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS The Bride Slept In, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The Bride Slept in her newly dead mother-in-law’s room:where a silver mirror and crystal hairpin dishstill held their places on the lace dresser scarf.She surveyed the papered blue toile walls where...
by Nora Hutton Shepard | Jul 6, 2023 | Arts & Entertainment, News, The Written Word
Search for: NEWS Sussex Afternoon, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was not fought at Hastings, but about ten miles up the rail line where a couple mapped their walking tour, where she followed him tunneling through a high hedge of...
