I baked a cake today
The following poem, I baked a cake today, was written in 2009. I wrote it for our daughter Mandy when we celebrated one of her last birthdays in Africa. How…
Tom on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, 1987
One more time
It hasn’t been longSince I last heard your crying to be fed in the nightAnd I held you close, rocking you til you sleptHolding you for hours in my armsSeems…
Sometimes I don’t want to
Sometimes I don't want to. Really.Have you ever had an assignment that you didn't want to finish? Most of us have.We live with extended power cuts. I don't like it,…
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Shake it off, how to cope when you get mixed signals
I need to shake it off; I know that not everyone will like or appreciate me in this world. That's normal, right? In my mind, I know this, but my…