Archive - Cake & Poetry

May tests my patience, that’s for sure. Early May’s unseasonably warm days gave way to mid May’s unseasonably cool and rainy ones.

May 29 •

April 2025

New and New-to-Me and Other Happy-Making Things

One thing about me: I’m a good shopper. Not saying it’s a skill without drawbacks...

Apr 27 •

March 2025

January 2025

Discovering January

Tracks in the snow and the semester starts and I'm ready enough

Jan 25 •

December 2024

On gifts and Gifts

Dec 28, 2024 •

November 2024

Mystery & Magic in November

... and one year of Cake & Poetry!

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

Autumn Beauty (and busyness)

I’m beginning this post from Northern Michigan where earlier today (September 28) I taught a workshop at the Glen Arbor Art Center on ekphrastic poetry…

Oct 13, 2024 •

September 2024

—though it really is still summer, right?

Sep 5, 2024 •

August 2024

The Many Moods of August

Looking back, looking ahead, trying to savor it all right here, right now

Aug 8, 2024 •

July 2024

On birthdays and sunsets, poems and baking, weaving and wishes and more!

Jul 13, 2024 •

June 2024

On Gardens and Writing and Not Writing and Summertime Sweetness

One of my all-time favorite books is Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin. This story, from 1904, never fails to fill me with the good kind of…

Jun 22, 2024 •

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