A blogging mistake prompts a mea culpa and lessons learned confession.

Talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in;
How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care;
How long it’s been since yesterday and what about tomorrow?
What about our dreams and all the memories we share?

A poem for people you love who are in pain.

Today, on Labor Day, I’m thinking of the many people I know who are laboring or heavy-laden, and I pray for them to find respite, peace, healing, comfort and support.

A remembrance poem for a gentle dog who licked my hand and leapt into my heart.

Observations from a taxi window in London. Hop in with me and share the journey of a sad discovery.

The Glover Gardens response to the nomination from the A. JoAnn Blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I like that name: sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

Reconstructing Grandpa in the museum of my heart – a poem in memory of an amazing man, Thomas Carlyle Holt.

The list referenced here from the All Nine blog by Kelly Belmonte is a wonderful and persuasive set of arguments in favor of writing poetry.

Image poetry: girl on the beach in repose knows, she simply knows Copyright 2017, Glover Gardens Cookbook

Haiku for air travel.

My review of Haiku Mind: what i thought i knew how to view and feel and say i knew not at all If you are into haiku, this book is for you. It is a book of haiku while at the same time being a […]

A young American writes an award-winning essay after being thanked by a Frenchman from Normandy for D-Day. The essay is relevant today.

A tiny tree in a Colorado forest inspires a haiku.

Happy to repost this article:  Encouraging others through tough times. Source: Grace by the Sea – Winelight | encouraging others through tough times

A tale of a chili cook-off fundraiser in a tiny Texas town, two friends, five gallons of spilled chili, dozens of kind people and a chance meeting with the governor.

I am in love with our little cabin in central Colorado.  “Little House in the Rockies” inspires me to create recipes, snap photos, write essays, poems and haiku, birdwatch…in general, to revel in nature and absorb its beauty and regenerative spirit. Here’s one from a […]

Cat haiku and pictures, because the world doesn’t have enough. So I give you: Godfrey in repose.

Haiku about autumn in Southeast Texas – the flowers are still blooming although the leaves are falling.

A haiku about that wonderful feeling of expectation and adventure when you travel by air.