Category: California

• Northern Lights

  When Northern Lights drift close to you They’re after your spirit. Bid your adieux!   They’ll carry you off to other souls…

• Cousins IV

  We come from a town Where we were all cousins Mennonite parents Kids by the dozens   All were Mennonite Through and…

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  Easter 2022

    I celebrate Easter in my old age with memories of music and memories of my daughters in pretty yellow outfits. I…

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  Lost in Lumber

  We were lost, me and my two cousins Paul and Harvey, they with guns and me with a camera. We were hunting…

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  Yosemite

  Some scenes become crisp in clean air. When they do, they bring new meaning to words like Cathedral. The symphony of the…

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  My Window

  I sit at the computer and look out my bedroom window, realizing that I have to move out of this house and…

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  Easter Journey

  My Easter journey this year followed a pattern of expansion in relationship. It started Maundy Thursday, continued Good Friday, and came to…

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  Mary’s Prayer

  One spring I travelled by bus from Los Angeles, California, where I was finishing high school, to Amarillo, Texas. It was Easter…

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  Steinbeck in Salinas

  Not often do I get my picture taken as an author. I have a respectable resume, but usually I am at the…