Lara’s Hands

hand massage, treatment, finger

My friend Lara Hall is an orthopedic nurse, an exercise instructor and a masseuse. She knows all the muscles and ligaments and tendons and bones …

Today Is Your Birthday

strawberry, berry, fruit

I walk by your desk.
I walk past you in the hall.
I’m pretty sure you don’t know me at all.

Fruit Pizza

sliced fruits on white ceramic plate

My friends are the hem.
The next circle’s uncles, aunts, cousins and kin.

They orbit my brother, dad, sisters, and mother-
circles in circles in circles within.

Cat on Her Birthday

Elsie on dictionary

My tail leaves a trail of elegant catness
My dangerous eyes are a light shade of green
It takes work to maintain my sinuous fatness
Though I may look youthful, today I’m thirteen.

Because Your Birthday

mother, mom, kid

Because I put on winter underwear, a purple turtleneck and a magenta ski jacket and went for a walk hoping to find some stuff to make a way cool card for you …

Spring Dog Dreams

Two Yellow Labrador Retriever Puppies

Today while the sun and the clouds chase about,
and the wind is a mousy mild,
four puppies and I, we fly through the fields
while the trees stand single-filed.

Uncle Davie and Me

vintage, book illustration, alice in wonderland

I started, this morning, by writing whatever came out of my brain…here’s a sample of the Alice-in-Wonderland-ness of it all …

Dayenu

forestry, natural reserve, forest

I have been thinking a lot about the word Dayenu, which we hear each year at the Passover seder.