Author: Colette Rhodes

You Plead to Everyone,

You Plead to Everyone,

“See the art in me…” We’re doing a kind of passive talent show on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend at church. Basically people are just going to have things set up in the foyer....

I Don’t Even Try to Explain

I Don’t Even Try to Explain

I just hold on tight. I went to bed on Sunday night with my mind just reeling about how busy I am these days, not really in a bad way, but surely in a...

You Must Have Known

You Must Have Known

The storm was coming    when the clouds appeared. Some people would laugh to hear this, considering my (sometimes hapless) fancy for all things fantasy, but I consider myself in an everyday sense as ‘realistic’....

Under Ice, There’s A World

Under Ice, There’s A World

Moving slow, carnelian stars and the bars down below… Today is our last at-sea day and tomorrow we’re going home. Nooo! I’ll be a bit happy to get off the boat, but vacation being...

My Heart Points North, Longing

My Heart Points North, Longing

For without you, I’m an ice cube melting. What? The ocean moves? I felt sea-sick on Thursday night, but not before listening to an amazing piano player, Paul Pappas, play beautifully… among other things… Phantom...

‘Cause I Don’t Need a Break

‘Cause I Don’t Need a Break

I need a vacation! At last, I am cruising! Plane rides are always such a hassle now with all the security and scanning and waiting around, but all that’s done for now. The most...

Your Eyes Have Now Opened

Your Eyes Have Now Opened

To a world where madness craves. Friday! Only two more days of work until I go to Alaska. I’m starting to get pretty excited even though I don’t really know what to expect from...

All I Am, For All You Are

All I Am, For All You Are

‘Cause what I need and what I will be     are worlds apart. On the last day of grade three, my classmates spontaneously decided to write goodbye notes to our teacher on the chalkboard during...

I Hear it Singing So Clear

I Hear it Singing So Clear

Invisible. Like the sound of the wind,       We all know you are there. Last night I went to Cathie’s place with Josh and Mark and Flo for a party because RoMo...