October 16 is a special day. RIP Oscar Wilde and Dad.

I’m not on the recommended pace to write a poem each day this month to participate in National Poetry Month, but this one happened in about 30 seconds. There will never be another muse like my Dad. He was a remarkable, wonderful, loving, accepting, listening […]

My dad was born 80 years ago today in West Texas as the Great Depression was coming to an end in the shadow of another Great War in Europe, a time before regular Americans realized we’d be involved in that war. With that backdrop and […]

I’m reblogging this post from Father’s Day last year with a haiku for my Dad. He loved it, and died 3 days later. I miss him, on this first Father’s Day without him. But I am perfectly at peace knowing that he knew how much […]

Thanksgiving weekend, eight of us family members spanning three generations packed into my Honda Pilot and headed down to the Bolivar Peninsula where I grew up.  We were on a mission to visit Dad’s favorite restaurant down there, and remember him. It was a perfect […]

(another) haiku for the best dad ever, on his first birthday in heaven

A gift of a live and blooming hibiscus, with a heartfelt haiku to celebrate Dad’s life.

a free verse remembrance for an amazing man

A little bee poem from a grieving and grateful daughter about making Dad-memories into honey.

Haiku for Dad from a grieving and grateful daughter.

Dad tells the story of a crayon-drawn collector’s item he “earned” from an artist during a 1964 radio interview.