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Deborah Kelly wrote a new post 5 years ago
Mary, Mary, quite contrary . . . a splat from my Charlottesville restauranting days . . .
From the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, I co-owned a couple of Charlottesville restaurants with my second ex-husband. […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years ago
They knew exactly when it would happen. Not just the day and the hour, but the minute. The very second. Even before they knew it, it was still destined to happen at that precise moment because it had […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years ago
Rebecca leaned into the driver’s-side window while I let the engine idle. Her brown hair had lengthened over the summer, and some strands fluttered into the car. The constellations in the ink-black sky and two l […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
Charlotte Rea is the 2nd place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
So proud you must be, atop
the fence rail, its flat
black the perfect
matte for
your copper.
Your telltale […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
When insomnia provokes my wife or I to walk the footprint of our house, we sometimes end up at our bookroom. Bookroom is an idiosyncratic idiom of our family as my grandparents used the term, logically enough, […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Nothing but Light: Works by David Summers 5 years ago
Gorgeous work and beautifully written! Bravo!
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 5 years ago
My attention often falls on things that just happen to be right where they are, set down here or there, together with this or that, thoughtlessly, as we say. These are gatherings of things I happen t […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
Susan Muse is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2020 Poetry Contest
Peas are on.
The kitchen smells of fatback
and cornbread rising in a rush of heat from the stove,
unfurling around me like those […]
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Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Where Are My Words? by Pamela Potter 5 years ago
Looks like her writing skills haven’t waned, despite the challenges. Quite nice!
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 years ago
All my life, I’ve processed joy and sorrow, confusion and diatribe, in writing. I have a book of hand written poems working through the tragedies and angst of a teenage mindscape. I have notebooks journaling my c […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
PORTRAITURE
Our dinner ends with watching Portrait
Artist of the Year. For Adele likeness is all,
while I focus on the how of its attainment.Beginnings proliferate and lead on to
ever more […]
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Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 5 years ago
Thanks, Erika. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Roselyn Elliott commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 5 years ago
Thank you, Lynda, for reading and for your comment. So glad you found it moving. One of the profound experiences of my life.
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Erika Raskin commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott 5 years ago
What a lovely essay and heart-breaking piece!
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years ago
I was walking our dog this evening, around six o’clock, when I heard the low rumble of an approaching train. I live in Silver Spring, Md., a few blocks from where the tracks cross over Georgia Ave.
When […]
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Susan Shafarzek wrote a new post 5 years ago
Ten years after graduation, at seven a.m., Sunday morning, I round the corner to my office and nearly stumble into a distraught family in prayer. Six adults, seated with their heads bowed, listen as a Catholic […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years ago
I am so sick of walking past the cute little signs that say
please clean up after your dog. really? do we want our ivy,
our pachysandra, our Vinca covered in pee and poop?
do we want our perfectly […]
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Erika Raskin wrote a new post 5 years ago
Sylvia wished she saw anything but houses when she looked out her bedroom window. A field, a lake, or the foggy moors of Wuthering Heights. Or if there must be houses, let them be stately. Like Pemberley or […]
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Paula Boyland wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
Among other national celebrations like Black History Month, Great American Pies Month and National Library Lover’s Month, February is also National Self-Check Month. Turns out, there’s a whole yearly calendar of […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 5 years, 1 month ago
A Chisel and a Rock
They say He created heaven, earth, and mystery:
The jungle lion’s guttural roar
The celestial twinkling of starsTell me
Where is your soul? And
does it move with you like the mo […]
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