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April 2026

April 18, 2026

On Middle Age, and the LaBelle Special

I'm calling the sunflowers "The LaBelle Special." Sunflowers are a flower that cross pollenates...

September 2025

September 16, 2025

To See the Light of God

The lights went out at midnight. Michael was at his night shift and Adrienne...

February 2025

February 04, 2025

Where Jesus Lives

It was the most anxious of days. There is so much to be anxious about....

December 2024

December 26, 2024

Everything Good Comes out of Nazareth

The first two days of winter were brilliant, and then they weren't anymore. The...

September 2024

September 13, 2024

Will You Walk With Me?

It hasn't been the best summer. August would have been just fine, if...

March 2023

March 23, 2023

The Great Fire of LaBelle

It was evening but not yet dark, when the Lost Girl texted me. "My neighbor's...

January 2023

January 19, 2023

The Hawk and the Songbirds

I haven't seen the hawk since Sunday. I'd asked, for a joke, if I could...

January 07, 2023

Sign of the Pigeons

It was the pigeons that gave me hope. I was going for my walk...

June 2021

June 21, 2021

Tink’s Wall

I didn't know Tink. I'd seen him lying on a mattress on the porch...

June 16, 2021

The Prettiest House on the Block

The menacing neighbor's house is starting to look very nice. It's slate blue with...

June 10, 2021

A Picture of the Sun

She was in her front yard, with a camera on a tripod, trying to...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

A Prayer Impatient and Irreverent

Two days ago was the best day I've had in years, and I am thankful....

May 18, 2021

The Beautiful and the Pleasant

It was one of those days where I just want to disappear. I wished...

December 2020

December 24, 2020

The Rust Belt Hallelujah

It's raining in LaBelle. The rain is falling very hard. It started at about...

November 2020

November 14, 2020

Good Night, Good Morning, Good Heavens

It was late Friday Night. I was in bed, reading. Many people with fibromyalgia have...

October 2020

October 09, 2020

Every Night And All

It got cold last week. It was going to frost, or get close to it....

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Saint Francis and the Brown-Black Cat

The week has not been conducive to very much writing. I had my second rabies...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

Not the Best Start to the Week

You may recall that yesterday I wrote a short blog post, ending by telling...

August 22, 2020

This Inhuman Place

Want to hear a true crime story? This is one I didn't know about,...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

La Belle Eden

I should have been writing this week, but instead I was in the garden....

April 2020

April 12, 2020

An Easter Visitation

Rosie's lively, ragtag neighbor friends, whom I've referred to as "corner friends" and "fireflies"...

April 03, 2020

The Deluge and the Garden

It was a steaming warm, cloyingly humid Saturday afternoon. It started out sunny, but then...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

A Rose in the Plague Time

The first time I forgot about the coronavirus, was yesterday. That was when I got...

March 19, 2020

Last Day of Winter on the Ohio

Yesterday was the last day of winter. I'm told that March 20th is the earliest...

January 2020

January 30, 2020

Over the Wine-Dark Ohio

It was snowing, but I couldn't see it. This has been the most disappointing of...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

O Foggy Night

It was one of those days when everything goes wrong. Of course, it was also...

October 2019

October 04, 2019

The Logic of Fireflies

Rosie tried to tell me about fireflies. She watched a television program all about...

October 03, 2019

Transitus

“Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person...

August 2019

August 16, 2019

The Tower of Power Sex Abuse Allegations go to Court, and I Have Further Questions

I was walking home from the grocery store earlier this week, when I saw...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

La Belle Inferno

They say the world is burning up. Wildfires have broken out this summer in...