Happy Holidays!
May your days be merry and bright!
As we enter the long dark days of a Pacific Northwest winter I'm cheered by the outdoor holiday lights my husband and the two-person crew from our business put up a few days ago. And I'm doubly cheered by the reason we have lights this year: we'll be celebrating Christmas at home with both our daughters, our son-in-law, and two of our grand-kittens. Our first time all together in more than two years. I'm cheered also by the light you shine into the world and thankful that we are connected in the web of life, sometimes unseen, sometimes sparkling. In this season, amid the hardships, isolation, and plague that still hounds us, may we each find moments of light and cheer.
Happy Holidays!
Cathy
It was mid-September when Jesus first moved in. Etta Mae remembers the day, if not the date, because the pippins were on their way to rotting, and she sent her oldest boy up the ladder with a bucket, while she held the wooden legs steady and battled back the nausea rising in her throat. It was a Friday night because she always made pie on Fridays, and it was 1960 because she was newly pregnant—for the fourth time...
This is the beginning of "Etta Mae's Jesus," my most recently published short story. You can read the rest here.
Giving the gift of poetry
You can download free Kindle versions of Poemographs: an Anthology and Home by Another Road for yourself or for friends and family from midnight Monday December 6th through 11:59 p.m. Friday December 10th.
Poemographs is an eclectic collection of poems from more than a dozen poets writing in response to my photos, which are featured in color in the Kindle edition.
Home by Another Road's poems navigate life's rough roads, interchanges, detours, scenic routes, fresh pavement, and even a rest stop en route to our ultimate destination—home.
If e-books aren't your thing, let me know, and I'll mail print copies for the cost of postage.
