Patricia Dennis Santa Clara, N. California Branch A gust of wind The soft swirl of leaves Autumn red and gold Turning Whirling Swirling So gracefully through the air Thoughts of ... Read more

Calder Lowe Modesto California Branch   Hurling himself against the confines of the picket fence, the chained dog yelps, its cry piercing my car windows at the stop light. The ... Read more

Barb Whitmarsh, Bayou City II Texas Branch (Happy Veterans Day – and God Bless America)   It was late and there was a nip in the air when he went down ... Read more

Christine Horner Alameda/Diablo Branch, CA   This place is different every time we come, new, wind-washed, sea-beaten. Old woods are eaten larger in every pore, the grain exposed more deeply. ... Read more

Margaret Leis Hanna, Central Ohio Branch Written after reading the historical novel, Widow’s War, by Sally Gunning   She walks the shore Stripped of her husband she searches solace on sand. Breathes ... Read more

Nancy Haskett, Modesto, CA Branch President   Dakota, Choctaw, Wampanoag, Comanche – names that echo off canyon walls, blow in the wind over prairies, rise fiercely from flames of burned ... Read more

Christina Laurie, West Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA Cape Cod Branch, president   (Genesis 2:18 – on the eve of my 50th birthday)   Seven times seven I have replaced each cell ... Read more

Sheryl L. Nelms, Member at Large, Clyde, TX   she unwraps herself from her stack of blankets   folds each over her left arm   and hobbles into the Fort ... Read more

Etta Schaeffer, Boca Raton, Florida   It was a beautiful September morning in The Big Apple My son, my only child was at work. He was in a building behind ... Read more

Virginia Franklin Campbell, NLAPW President 2016-2018   To stately “old growth,” Douglas Fir, In a veritable amphitheater, I returned. Scout patrol campsites, in clock positions, eight, eleven, one and three, ... Read more