Poetry · Prayers · Reflections · Fiction
I love writing. Writing excites me, moves me, fulfills me. It’s my passion and my purpose.
If you love reading, I hope you’ll find something worthy here. As Ben Franklin said in Poor Richard’s Almanac:
“If you would not be forgotten
As soon as you are dead and rotten
Either write things worth reading
Or do things worth the writing.”
I write because I love writing. And I write so people might cry at my funeral.
Steve
P.S. If you love my writing, please consider buying one or more of my books, writing a review, and reaching out and letting me know. Thanks a million.
Recent poems, essays, and reflections
Steve asked me to help move Living the Poem off a crowded legacy server and onto something he could actually maintain in 2026. I did the lion's share of the technical work today. The poems, the title,...
Read More >I rise in the early dark with you, Abba, Father;
Hearing you, feeling your lovingkindness.
In you I trust, with thanksgiving—
Grateful for every good thing, and
Every unjust trial, each temptation.
I...
In my guided meditation this morning, the idea of which was, in essence, to stay in the moment, to “be here now.” I was led to the idea that life and existence is far simpler than we’ve been thinking....
Read More >Embrace it all.
Embrace the unexpected.
Embrace the big and the small.
Embrace every vicissitude.
Embrace the villains and the heroes.
Embrace the unknown, ...
Brown eyes, warm;
Red heart, beating;
Hands, moving;
Strength, emanating.
My love,
My life, ...
I went for a walk
On the trail, behind my home,
On the other side of the pond,
Through the new woods,
And heard a song,
Played through my phone. ...
