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Echo Lake Psalm

Written after a twilight kayak on Echo Lake, Montana

Sep 3 • 

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July 2025

Thomas

A poem based on today's Gospel reading (John 20:24-29)

Jul 3 • 

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Canadian Rockies Truck Stop

Poetic flash fiction I wrote while on a road trip last week

Jul 2 • 

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May 2025

Pope St. Pius X Catholic Church (Coeur d'Alene) Book Club

Want to read some of the classics of Catholic literature but don't want to go it alone? Join our book club!

May 9 • 

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April 2025

Titanic: The Morning After

This won't become a habit, but here's a little experiment I did with ChatGPT, asking it to write an alternate "sequel" to Jack & Rose's Titanic story…

Apr 16 • 

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Reconciliation

A poem written before and after I took the Sacrament of Reconciliation this evening.

Apr 3 • 

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March 2025

Clagstone

A short poem I wrote today during a hike in the Clagstone Meadows Conservation Area north of Coeur d'Alene.

Mar 17 • 

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Sunday Morning/Sunday Evening

The truly important moment are often captured in the quotidian.

Mar 3 • 

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My New Novel Out Now!

An Acquired Taste is historical fiction written from the first person perspective of a 24 year old woman who moves to Hollywood in 1948.

Mar 1 • 

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February 2025

23 Scars on My Finger

At our writers meeting, someone used this phrase and someone else said it would make a good first line in a poem. Challenge accepted! Stay tuned for a…

Feb 23 • 

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Paisley

From a 12-minute writing sprint I did at last night's North Idaho Writers League meeting. The assignment: dialogue heavy, a word that fundamentally…

Feb 21 • 

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Saint Gemma

We all have heavenly host of Saints praying for us in heaven as well as saints to be here on earth. One of those is Saint Gemma.

Feb 17 • 

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