I’ll tell you: Be your own damn parade. Be a one-person parade.
Tag: Belle Fox-Martin
POEM: Reflection
it’s our neck
it’s our knee
it’s our knee on our neck
BELLE FOX-MARTIN: Challenges in the time of coronavirus
Belle Fox-Martin offers advice on how to deal with those life-changing, challenging moments during our self-isolation in this era of epidemic.
BELLE FOX-MARTIN: Moles, voles & rabbit warrens
The futile attempt to try to make order out of chaos may allow some wee sense of control, but it all rings hollow.
Ducks & rows
This virus calls us to view our world’s global disarray.
Valentine’s Day message: Don’t talk. Just kiss.
Orelse was as gray as the day, except for her overweight lips that shone as red as a mid-September sunrise on Narragansett Bay.
Belle Fox-Martin: Through a lens differently
The clarity would never be spot on but it would be so much more than nothing.
BELLE FOX-MARTIN: T.G.I.F.
Bring to mind a remarkable occurrence that you experienced on this day or any Friday of your life.
Come to the table
Come to the table to know once again and again we are each other’s keepers.
Belle Fox-Martin’s ‘Stone Pears’ blends poetry, micro-stories in a refreshing, unexpected collection
Within her collection, Fox-Martin touches on those auspicious moments that mark the end of months, the change of seasons and the passage of time.
Bits & Bytes: ‘A History of Searles Castle’; downtown Pittsfield trick or treat; ‘The Perfect Pitch’; ‘Interreligious Illiteracy’; ‘Stone Pears’ book launch
The fifth annual Western Mass Film and Media Exchange will feature Hollywood screenplay consultant, author and pitch expert Pilar Alessandra.
There’s a chill in the air
There most certainly is a chill in the air. This chill is so pervasive and blowing from so many directions that our impulse is to bundle up, protect ourselves, cover our faces from this stinging wind.
A self-confessed line umpire
Whatever empathy we express toward the man who has thirsted for 30,000 years is just a self-serving feint to sooth our ego.
Vira Vira Equinox
Vira Vira poses the question of the day — perhaps the era.
A Valentine’s message
A Valentine’s Day illustration from Belle Fox-Martin.
Vera Vera Equinox anticipates Valentine’s Day
Vera Vera Equinox considers her options.
A new way home
It’s January 5, 2018 and depending on your perspective we are all either hopelessly lost or we are all on the road together.
For the New Year: Prayer flags or laundry?
Belle Fox-Martin muses about the implications of this New Year’s… prayer flags or laundry.
Two Poems: ‘Come’ and ‘Thanks and Giving’
That place across this table, that table, every table that knows the harvest of heart and home and neighbor and need as we ask once more, ask to become our blessings.
Edge cartoon caption contest
Here is a cartoon in need of a caption. Please submit one.
Notes from afar
Reflections from Belle Fox-Martin, including the poem “Bath Time.”
Join the marches — virtually
Copy and cut out this pussy cat hat and wear it, post it, display it in a window, on your car, on Facebook.
Seasons Greetings
Seasons Greetings: Illustration and poem for the holiday season from Belle Fox-Martin.
Vira Vira Equinox
Ever the proponent of participatory democracy, Vira Vira is on her soapbox, reflecting the spirit of the current presidential campaign.
Vira Vira Equinox does Halloween
The mischievous Vira Vira Equinox prepares for All Hallows Eve.
Vira Vira Equinox
Vira Vira asks: What rhymes with liar?
POEM: Days of Awe
A poem for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, that begins today at sunset, initiating ten days of spiritual self-examination. L’Shanah Tovah.
Vira Vira Equinox: Vira’s Manifesto
Vira Vira Equinox issues a 13-point declaration of her intentions.
Vira Vira Equinox
A query from Vira Vira Equinox, now that September is here, school has begun.
Vira Vira Equinox
More insights from Vira Vira Equinox.
Vira Vira Equinox
Meet Vira Vira Equinox, the creation of Belle Fox Martin of Glendale (Massachusetts).
Orlando eulogy
A eulogy delivered during a vigil this week for those who lost their lives in the Orlando massachre: “Love did not die in Orlando. And fear does not have the last word.
Shalom. Shalom. Shalom.”