By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida He was an Army warrant officer in Vietnam, often assigned reconnaissance, the scary, dirty work on the ground. When darkness ... Read more
“Phoenix Song” by Kat Heckenbach, Tampa Branch Mixed Media Tampa Branch member Kat Heckenbach started doing mixed media art after a friend and fellow artist spent an ... Read more
By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City Branch, Texas Note: Paumonok is the name the American Indians gave to Long Island. Is it still as I remember Suns golder ... Read more
By Lori Joseph Member-at-Large While aboard the Breezin’ Thru, Captain Tilghman Hemsley III handed me a photo of one of his paintings in progress. Tilghman asked me to ... Read more
Ahh, North Rim Grand Canyon by Risa Waldt, member at large Watercolor (20 x 20) A native Tucsonan, Risa Waldt grew up in the desert and soaked up visions ... Read more
By Martha Steger Member-at-Large As early-morning patricians we have only to go a few steps beyond the back porch – ah, the Romans’ porticus – to pluck drooping red-brown Brahmin fruit ... Read more
By Donna Puglisi Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida November exhales her chilly breath, blowing hard, a prelude to December’s icy grip. Teasingly, she blends with fall’s sunshine and warmth, ... Read more
By Sarah Honenberger Greetings from new Fiction and Nonfiction Editor Sarah ‘Sally’ Honenberger. Over the last decade, the talented and creative Virginia Pen women have inspired me to reimagine ... Read more
By Anne Ring LaJolla Branch, California Why On that evening in July As twilight cast its spell all over London And ticking, clicking hands of time were stilled Why Were there no throbbing songs of nightingales Piercing the clear air And why Were you not there? As slowly night came sauntering by Stealing twilight from the sky Blazing brilliant stars gazed down Summers bright celestial crown! Still no nightingale was heard And from your lips there was no word Why Were you not there? I watched the lovers in the square Whisper together pair by pair Why Were you not there? I knew again our quiet stroll, And felt the anguish in my soul! ... Read more
“Caribbean Colors” by Pamela Webb, Cape Canaveral Branch (Florida) Pamela Webb and Deborah Wyche (friend and donor to the Cape Canaveral Branch) attended a poetry workshop by Donna Puglisi, ... Read more
