Sunset photos taken by a friend in British Columbia
Read MoreAbout Frances C. Sky
March 12, 2015 by
My mother, Frances Cecilia Sky, always wanted to be a published writer. She wrote in longhand on blue-lined loose leaf paper and she typed on flimsy yellow second sheets. Her subject matter was everything from book reviews for her Book Club (a group that existed before World War II and must have been one of the first […]
Read MoreFrances C. Sky: Cousin Belka, the Egg, and the Hairs on My Head
March 12, 2015 by
To my great sorrow my hair was thin and wispy and I envied eight year old cousin Belka’s thick braids beyond anything else she possessed. It may have been a wife’s tale that great grandmother Anna had told me
Read MoreAbout Irene Savine
October 1, 2014 by
Irene Savine is a poet, mother and entrepreneur residing in Highland Park, IL. Her collection of poetry, The Recording Angel, is forthcoming when she gets around to it.
Read MoreIrene Savine: From My Room In The Old Mill By The Fox River
October 1, 2014 by
The river is frozen and the men walk out to their black tents
to fish long after-work hours on the ice
this small miracle of climate
Irene Savine: Making Challah In The Year 5769
October 1, 2014 by
I hear my immortal soul is
In peril! But really, husband,
Peace will not wait for the one who
Irene Savine: “Our Father, Our King”
October 1, 2014 by
The bees
don’t recite
an alphabet of woe
