May is Brain Tumor Awareness month, and the best way I know how to raise awareness is to share my knowledge, personal experience and...

Discussion & Poetry Readings from Hope Like Sunlight, For National Poetry Month.

A discussion of life after childhood cancer, its physical, mental and emotional side effects— and healing.

🎨💖Beautifully painted hearts are being auctioned to benefit The Cure Starts Now and help fund pediatric brain cancer research. 🎗️

📚🎄Hope Like Sunlight is Available Today, December 25, 2024. Merry Christmas! 🎗️

Coming Soon! Hope like Sunlight , a book of poetry, prose & artwork by Stacie & Sadie Eirich All Proceeds Benefit St. Jude Children’s...

In September 2023, I shared a post for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month outlining the symptoms my child, Sadie, had prior to diagnosis of...

One Glorious Chorus for my fellow SAHC singers & friends We step out of a yellow cab into a swirl of sounds, of lights, of colors, step...

Fireflies of Hope for Camp Firefly 2024 Together, we spend sun-drenched days on the water, glide across a lake of sparkling blue, burst...

Poppy II by Jamie Lynn Moore Gathering Ribbons for Shepherd, Mason & Alexander I dreamt of red, beating wings, vibrant cherry-red petals,...

For National Poetry Month, here’s a new poem and new reviews of poetry books I’m reading! I hope you’ll be inspired to read and share...

Tenderness of fields, painting by Elena Artstyle, pixels.com In soft slips of blooms In cool mists of morning In silver whispers of song...

Claude Monet (1840–1926), Spring, 1886, oil on canvas, 64.8 x 80.6 cm, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Public domain image. I turn the...

Wake to your voice saying “Mama, Mama”, to your slender arm reaching inside the blankets, body shivering in cold gray light. Wake to you...

In the living room, letters spell LOVE in bright cherry red, the color of lipstick mothers wore in the eighties of dragon’s blood...

Foggy Winter Morning, Photography by Dorinda Grever, fineartamerica.com Brokenness beating through me settling like rain into ditches the...

Photo above by Tim Gainey, available on pixels.com I. Gone is the little boy who would rush to me with smiles and laughter, who snuggled...

Winter Dawn Bare Trees, photograph by Dean Pennala, pixels.com Look into the morning Listen to silence, to stillness Bare blue sky, Bones...

You can listen to the newest season of my podcast, Poetry for Peace, beginning January 15th, 2024. I’ll be sharing a new poem with...

Whatever Comes Next Wind rushes cool, gentle rustling gold-green leaves in tall old oaks. The corner of Poplar and Hawthorne hums with...