Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large (Maine)   Middle English “trewthe,” from Old English “trēowth” — fidelity; akin to Old English “trēowe” — faithful — before 1100s   “You can’t handle the truth,” ... Read more

Thelma A. Giomi Yucca Branch, NM   Yesterday, I walked under a canopy of mimosa trees, Maybe a dozen, Who could count the fragrance was so intoxicating, The shade so soothing. ... Read more

Elizabeth Yale Bayou City II   I could smell it as soon as I walked in the door breakfast pancakes, oil on the cast iron skillet his face so endearing, ... Read more

By Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City ll Branch, Texas    The grass is damp with crystalline dew Orderly white gravestones They’re wet too The flags are lowered Until dawn What leaps ... Read more

Barbara Sillery Cape Cod Branch   The sky is falling. There’s a hole in the ground. Hug me. Hug me, now.   The road is too narrow. The hill is ... Read more

Lois Batchelor Howard Palm Springs Branch   A friend said I must be jumping out of my skin That’s quite a picture I see my outsides crumpled to the floor ... Read more

by Susan Bassler Pickford Member-at-large Comedy: Middle English, from Medieval Latin comoedia, from Latin, drama with a happy ending,  from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmos revel + aeidein to sing    1300s   Fifty years ago Carol ... Read more

  by Barb Whitmarsh Bayou City 2, TX Branch   Had it sung but one brief song Known one moment of Spring Taken one brief flight Piped in one dawn ... Read more

by Jill Maura Rabin, M.D. Long Island, New York Branch   From Generation to Generation: ‘L’Dor v’ Dor’ (‘Give me the keys, please’)   From generation to generation, L’Dor v’Dor ... Read more