What Crosses My Mind

  • She’s Having A Baby

    I am a happy man. In just a few short months I will be a grandfather. My daughter is about to have a child and I could not be happier. I’m scared too. I think that is a natural feeling to have for your daughter, your child, a parental instinct to care and protect. I…

  • Indescribable Love

    When everything else is put aside, the need to have is forgotten, the eye on the prize becomes a secondary notion, for the forefront becomes our living breathing soul ~ she was born into our world suddenly vulnerable in need of touch, we did reach out I held my little girl and everything around me…

  • Proud These Tears

    There was that moment, when standing, holding court together, we merged our simple lives, with smiles, I’ve watched you grow, a calculated beautiful person, we all knew you were from day one, when I held you in my hands, 6:38 PM, my life changed that day, and yet I still managed to be human, on far…

  • 6:38 PM – A Sonnet for Libby

    I remember a time when I a lad, the first time, that I could call me a dad, The hour forever emblazoned in my mind this precious human being, now remind me that actual miracles occur. I knew my own tears when first I held her, lovely eyes that shine blue today as bright as…