Nancy Haskett, Modesto, CA Branch President Dakota, Choctaw, Wampanoag, Comanche – names that echo off canyon walls, blow in the wind over prairies, rise fiercely from flames of burned ... Read more
Christina Laurie, West Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA Cape Cod Branch, president (Genesis 2:18 – on the eve of my 50th birthday) Seven times seven I have replaced each cell ... Read more
Sheryl L. Nelms, Member at Large, Clyde, TX she unwraps herself from her stack of blankets folds each over her left arm and hobbles into the Fort ... Read more
Etta Schaeffer, Boca Raton, Florida It was a beautiful September morning in The Big Apple My son, my only child was at work. He was in a building behind ... Read more
Virginia Franklin Campbell, NLAPW President 2016-2018 To stately “old growth,” Douglas Fir, In a veritable amphitheater, I returned. Scout patrol campsites, in clock positions, eight, eleven, one and three, ... Read more
Rachael Ikins Central NY Branch Only you showed up 3 days in a row last September a year ago. The heat, the 3 flights of stairs, weight, furniture we lifted ... Read more
Linda K. Bridges, Pikes Peak, Colorado Branch Unsuspecting, a quarrel hits without warning! Angry words fly—well-aimed missiles—hitting their mark. The shards and debris of broken relationships land here and ... Read more
M. J. Putnik, Boca Raton, Florida Branch I just kissed my husband goodbye. I watch him walk toward his marked police car and get inside. I stand at the window ... Read more
Susan Bassler Pickford, Member-at-Large in Lyman, Maine Navigating the dangerous passage of old age Between rocks and eddies One side covered with indifferent, defeatist attitudes Devil- may- care, rock hard, ... Read more
