THE WRITTEN WORD
The Written Word is a place for local writers to share their articles, stories, and thoughts with News of Davidson readers. Send submissions to [email protected] . Thanks!
How to Bake a Cake
NEWS Fresh out of college and living in the Washington, DC area, my three roommates and I decided to have a birthday party for my boyfriend (BF) of only a few months. There was only one dish that we knew how to prepare – Beef Stroganoff, and it wasn’t a gourmet...
Thank-You Notes: To Be Or Not To Be
NEWS Over the past 70 years, I’ve probably written more than 1,200 thank-you notes. I started this ritual the day after my mother determined my handwriting was legible enough to decipher. So, in 1964, at age 11, I was inducted into the formal “Thank-You Note...
Into My Heart – a poem for the New Year by Jody Seymour
NEWS (a poem/prayer for the New Year) My heart has been owned by me since the breath I took in my unknowing So possession has been mine alone since my birthing But as the light rises on this time of pause and ponder I wonder how well I have done with my gift so...
Four Advent Poems by Jody Seymour
NEWS Sleep Bethlehem Sleep Bethlehem, your streetsare now emptybut full is the nightEvening found them lonelyand looking for shelterfrom questions that filledtheir wondering hearts Finding only a world’s “no”they now rest in theabode of animals whomust notice how...
The Advent Journey: Three Poems by Jody Seymour
NEWS Who Needs Christmas? Who needs Christmas…?The broken heartedlooking for afaint lightdo Those who lost a lovewhen death’s callcame too soondo All who are too fullof shopping daysbut who feel emptydo Smiling faces wantingsomeone to thankfor so muchdo Busy people...
Destined to Fly – a poem for Advent
NEWS Legs in the air looking toward a waiting sky I dreamed of flying The swing was but a moment in time… a place to make plans for a coming adventure Growing up the fantasy lost its power The worries of tomorrow filled my mind with constant motion and gone was...
Advent. Why?
NEWS 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 January but with the First...
Which Wilderness? (An Advent Poem)
NEWS (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 way of the Lord.”Isaiah 40: 3 Why does the cry need...
G is for Grief…and Goodness
NEWS 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 being hit on the head with a celestial...
Lice, a Poem by Nora Hutton Shepard
NEWS 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 mother would scrub and scrub their...