What we miss...

What we miss as we drive on the I-70 bridges over the Patapsco River valley.

by peaceful waters..

There is something refreshing and therapeutic about my walks along this river.

American Gothic

Church ruins in a forest. The ruins of a Catholic Church, St. Stanislaus Kostka, once serviced by the Jesuits of Woodstock. It is located on a hill overlooking the Patapsco river near what was once the mill town of Daniels (Alberton) Maryland. The land is now part of the Patapsco Valley State Park. Local history says that when the river was frozen over in winter, a Jesuit would ice skate down the river from Woodstock to Daniels to say Mass then skate back upriver to Woodstock. The church, built in 1879, was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire in 1926.

To put the general location in popular context: Woodstock was the location of a Jesuit school of theology. In the movie, The Excorcist, there is a brief scene where a young Jesuit runs to find and summon the exorcist, Father Merrin, who is found walking on a path along a wooded slope. That scene was filmed at Woodstock.

Sometimes you see things more clearly in a fog

Getting out the vote.

Oh Crap!

I was right. Table games are coming to Maryland.

Table Games Coming to Maryland

The past is prologue. It's all for the children and the schools you know.

Bete Noire

I am all choked up about my poem, All Choked Up, appearing in issue #8 of Bete Noire magazine. Thanks go to editors A.W. Gifford and Jennifer Gifford. A lot of work goes into these independent magazines. They are really labors of love, even when the themes are about anything but love. It is a print magazine, so you have to buy it to read it. Go ahead, dive in. The water's fine, even if it is a little dark.

Apeiron Review

Today marks the launch of a new web based literary magazine, Apeiron Review. The premier issue contains three of my photographs along with four short stories, a pair of nonfiction articles and two dozen poems by other writers. A clean, no frills design houses high quality content. Please visit the site and explore its offerings. 

Going Short

If I write any shorter, the page will look naked. Here's a barely there three liner at Three Line Poetry.
http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=13&issue=13

Tabor

My poem of the Transfiguration, Tabor, is at the web-journal Pilgrim.
http://www.pilgrimjournal.com/tabor.html

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