Hayes and Corrie in early May 2020. sticks in black water, the lake where my grandparents lived looked black until you crept to the side and saw sticks with splintered stems. i’ve heard love stories like that before. the story where a couple chooses the happiest moments for coffee mugs, pillows, and twentieth anniversary albums.… Continue reading A Sibling Love Story: Poem for Corrie and Hayes
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Ready to Talk: Beginnings
There is something to a love story. Not the sappy, man with bare chest caries helpless woman with dress draped over her shoulder romance. There are the love stories everyone approves. Then there's the love stories that puts vinegar in people's sugar. Ready to Talk A Memoir by Rebecca T. Dickinson… Continue reading Ready to Talk: Beginnings
A Blue Ridge Tale
Today is my birthday. One of the greatest gifts in my life is my husband. We've been through a lot together, but I am a hopeless romantic and always believed in that knock-you-off-your-feet feeling. I began writing poems from the very moment I realized he was special and important. I have kept all the poems… Continue reading A Blue Ridge Tale