By Andrea Jones Walker Pensacola Branch, Florida   Something about a road trip frees the soul, fills the senses like fresh air in the lungs. The pavement to Atlanta is ... Read more

By Barbara Castle Hanson Cape Canaveral Branch, Florida                                                                                                      She awakes with the gradual awareness that she is awake. She doesn’t want to be awake.     She tries ... Read more

By Janet Fagal Central New York Branch   We always heard the story, how he rode the train for four out of five days of leave. From San Antonio to ... Read more

By Carmen Meadows Atlanta Branch     If I forget you, darling one, as I grow old and frail, I have a secret treasure chest no moths or rust assail.   ... Read more

By Carolynn J. Scully Member-at-large   The ancients winked and smiled at the mystery and magic of the wee island of green, a crock of shamrocks hiding Leprechaun gold for ... Read more

By Mary L. Gardner CNY Branch   Being Clear There’s not a follicle of truth in a colleague’s chronicled memoir that observing a tropical botanical requires a monocle.   Footnotes ... Read more

Patricia Doyne Diablo-Alameda Branch, California     (Based on Giraphics by muralist Dan Fontes)   Whoosh! The freeway overpass pulses with cars, pick-ups, buses, big-rigs, motorcycles. All day they speed ... Read more

Mary Joan Meagher Minnesota Branch   The present tense is tricky When the one you love No longer is But has become a was. Existence is measured in moments. Moments ... Read more

Christina Laurie Cape Cod Branch, Massachusetts    When the serpent beckoned Eve and she tasted the ripe softness of the pink fruit from the forbidden tree, she felt the energy ... Read more

  Dr. Carmen Meadows Atlanta Branch     Carefree days outside I played  Come cloud or sun I’d laugh and run   To see bugs crawl or scale a wall ... Read more