Inside Her Reflection

On a dark winter’s morning, she sits alone, snuggled deep inside a warm quilt, twinkling Christmas tree lights her only companion. In the stillness she cannot help but reflect on those things that are past and ponder that which is to come. In her quest to record her thoughts, she stumbles upon a book from Read More

Those We Lost

Darkness cloaks sun’s lightDeath irrevocably snuffs out breath of lifeTwo pregnant sisters, one hot summer dayTwo sons born, only one lives todayThirty plus love and life filled years betweenThen history replays the cruelest of scenesOnly this time fate reverses their roleSame two sisters, one cold winter dayTwo granddaughtersOne celebrated arrival, one tearful goodbyeGrief shows no Read More

Woman Versus Waves

Living Outside the Lines: “Woman Versus Wave”  The history of SUP or stand-up paddling is a bit murky. An article in Stand Up Paddling World Magazine http://www.supworldmag.com/the-history-of-stand-up-paddling/ extends credit for the discovery from Hawaii to Tel Aviv to the UK. No matter the origins, all across the US and into Europe and Australia, stand-up boards have become Read More