• Musings

    Lesson From A Tot

    I don’t remember the time or place – grad school class? conference on family therapy? – but the speaker’s words echo on: “Human beings don’t like to say no to an honest need.” The who, where and when have evanesced…

  • Prayer

    Bless This Home

    O Beings of Light and Mystery, thank you for a new home of safety and simplicity. Grant that in this sun-filled space I am daily mindful of your Presence. May I write poems that please you, play songs that honor…

  • Prayer

    Force Of Creation

    Here I am, finding myself in the calm after the storm, being reconfigured by the mysterious turmoil of surrender. There is an explosive power in giving up, giving in. . . every bit of everything. . . to allow the…

  • Poetry

    Abalone Charms

    Slip into Abalone charms And let yourself be found In ancient tales of oceans blue And treasures nature bound Dance with iridescence Let it wash your mind With wonders pure and simple Potentials intertwined Feel your inner spirals Relax into…

  • Poetry

    Family Alchemy

    Philosopher’s stone and elixirs of life Were desired in past Middle Ages. Past middle age, a Chapman-blessed wife, I longed only for wisdom of sages. Evolving through chemistry, wedding and birth A family must contrasts enfold, Embracing new members for…

  • Prayer

    On My Path

    I want to do well each day on my path . . . for my personal well-being, in my relationships, in my work and play, as a citizen of this world.  I am grateful for life showing me where I…

  • Poetry

    Somewhere Under the Rainbow

    The strange Muse for the poem below was the swirling turmoil in our nation: police brutality, racial and gender injustice, purging Confederate monuments, global climate change, social distancing — all seem to be at a boiling point in the midst…