Ala Faco

A Time to Talk When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all th...

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choos...

'Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits'

The birds do not sing in these mornings. The skies are white all day. The Canadian geese fly over high up in the moonlight with the lonely ...

My father taught me how to eat breakfast those mornings when it was my turn to help him milk the cows. I loved rising up from the darkness ...

Author Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones in New York City (1862). She came from a distinguished New York family, and she grew ...

 Vita Sackville-West was born at Knole, her family's castle in Kent, England (1892). She grew up in an incredibly wealthy family, b...

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place? We s...

I go to the mountain side of the house to cut saplings, and clear a view to snow on the mountain. But when I look up, saw in hand, ...

The novelist and short story writer Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco (1919). She grew up shy and awkward in California and never...

 Short story writer Breece Dexter Pancake was born in Kanawha County, West Virginia (1952). He wrote stories set in Appalachia, about cha...

My father would lift me to the ceiling in his big hands and ask,  How's the weather up there? And it was good, the weather of bei...

WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?—No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep ...

Novelist Scott Turow was born in Chicago, Illinois (1949). He went to Harvard Law School, got a job with the United States District Attor...

FRANCIS STEEGMULLER was born in New Haven, Connecticut, 1906, author of several dozens short stories, mysteries, comic novels, and pieces f...

Raymond Carver was born in the town of Clatskanie, Oregon (1938), who was, in his own words, a "poet, short story writer, and occas...

I was welcomed here—clear gold of late summer, of opening autumn, the dawn eagle sunning himself on the highest tree, the mountain revea...

Bor·ges  [bawr-hes]  Jor·ge Luis  [hawr-he lwees]  , 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist. He wa...

Sara Teasdale was born in St. Louis (1884). She grew up in a wealthy family. Her mother was 40 when Sara came along, and her parents...

Mary Oliver born in  1935, is an American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her...