Artemisia

They say if you peer too long into the abyss, it will begin to look back at you.

In which two young dogs encounter two old cats and learn to appreciate Sinatra.

Love, passion, footwear and dental modifications merge for a Vancouver letter-carrier.

A Harlequin-style romance for squirrels.

The tragedy of his wife's condition had been perfectly met by the care and tenderness of her husband. It was a daily lesson for me.

A Mediterranean lady helps me uproot a childhood fear.

On the adaptability of crows and men when eating lunch in the urban outdoors of our era.

Pondering the nature and fate of culture from a barber’s chair.

In which, at long last, I allow myself to cry.

On finding your family, pondering hidden siblings and a tribute to my friend, Ms. Judy Joe.

In which a man in a wheelchair teaches me not to judge a book by its cover.

A sword learns, "All wars of religion are only civil wars, and by civil war no nation's condition was ever bettered." Prince Henry -1618

Wedding rings, dreams, kokopillau, lightning trees, wanderers and a cotton thread running from ancient Egypt to Early Texas.

If we could actually understand the bond between a man and a woman, we would have destroyed that bond which is rooted in the Mystery.

In which I learn of the purpose and fate of a poem I wrote twenty years before my retirement.

My first encounter with the spirit of St. Melangell.

Introduction to Recollections of a Vancouver Letter-carrier.