I started tinkering with dehydrating food about a year ago. I started with fruits that were close to becoming too ripe. It provided me a way to keep the fruit. Following the derecho of 2012, where areas of West Virginia went without electricity for two weeks, I decided to begin developing a way to survive …
This is the poem I wrote in 2009, titled Autumn. It was published in Issue 2 of Holler, A Journal of Poetry and Prose, by the Princeton Poetry Project, Thomas J. McKenna, Ph.D., Director. Autumn It is in the air. The cool of autumn Rides the wind Summer fades away. The sun grows tired …
This has been a most difficult fall and winter for me. I pulled my shoulder and have been struggling with it since August. The therapist calls it a frozen shoulder. The therapy helped to restore some of the mobility, but I developed a lot of pain. Turns out the osteoarthritis I also struggle with is …
