What It Is

What It Is

by Maida Korte “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing!”–Anonymous             I spent last Sunday afternoon in my closet. After watching numerous videos on how to purge my wardrobe I...
To Cathy on her 70th Birthday

To Cathy on her 70th Birthday

Todd And His Bride With love from Maida “Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.” –  Sonnet 116 – Shakespeare I watched my brother...
What It Is

The Boys

By Maida Korte “I’m not trouble at all. I’m just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I’m like every song on the radio.” – Hailey Abbott            ...

Bed Time

          by Maida Korte “Was it for this I uttered prayers, and sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs? That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?”                                                             Edna St. Vincent Millay...
The Porch

The Porch

-Maida Korte “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Henry Graham Greene I feel a certain anxious expectation when I approach the front door of any home.  The house can be a quintessential mid-century modern...

Moving

Maida Korte- “I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”- Judith Minty  Since I had roots so firmly planted in city soil, uprooting them to move to the country would take some...