Laughing Into The Dome of Heaven

A handful of works have traveled with me from 1980 to the present. These pieces escaped the loss, destruction, or abandonment suffered by so many others over the years. In seven cross-country moves, through two divorces, after numerous academic and professional incarnations, these stories and poems accompanied me in dark times and fun times, through joy and despair, and now lived in little file folders—textual snapshots of my emotions, fears, loving concerns from one side of the continent t...