The Phoenix Challenge

Table of Contents

Letters

Sailing 
To Say Goodbye 
Holding On 
Sweet & Swinging 
College Crew 
Dickens 
Footprints 
Her Yellow Coat 
Kona Tracks 
The Restaurant 
Children’s S’Miles 
Loco-Motion 
What Not To Wear

Recipes

Chicken Salad Supreme 
Orange Chiffon Cake 
Christmas Cookies with Cuervo* 
Butterscotch Brownies 

Wisdom

The Parable of the Starfish 
Things My Mother Taught Me* 

Stories

Dancing with Jed Clayman 
Deliverance 
Red Sweater 
Year’s End 
Lost 
Will 
Blue Lakes Jog 
Hands 
Christmas Presence 
The Grandmother 
White Lie 
The Desk 
Reunion 
Hard Day’s Night 
Year of Living Dangerously 
The Music Box 

Songs

For the Beauty of the Earth* 
Memory* 
To Where You Are* 
Through the Eyes of Love* 
Ever-Changing Times* 
On My Way to You* 
Dancing Queen* 

Poems

Warning 
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep 
Universe 
Hands Across the Sunset 
Saugatuck Moon 
Your 50th Birthday! 
The Star 
Angel 
Snow Days 
Messenger 
Afternoon 
Limbo 
Conundrum 
Spring Jog 
Voices 
Darien’s Coming 
Jillian’s Poem 
Dream 
Together 
Whispers 
Jacuzzi 
Snowball 
Pear Cottage 
With You 
This is Mary 
From Color of the Road 
  Eagle  
  Turkeys 
  Deer 
  Sunflowers 
  You 
  His 
Sisters 
First Easter Morning 
Hyacinths 
From Blue Lake Respite 
 
Table for Two 
  Blue Lake Morning 
Tahoe 
Again Goodbye, Again 
Christmas Eve to Christmas Morning 
From Blue Lake Piano 
Home 
Reminiscence  
Piano 
Full Circle 
Threshold 
Aren’t We Something, Rose? 
From Autumn Weekend 
 
Yearning 
  Message 
  Companion 
Silence 
Julie’s Daffodils 
The Beach at Algonac 
From Repose 
 
Autumn Rain 
  Awaiting 
  Afternoon Frolic 
  For Memory 
From Winter to Spring
 
Mentor 
  Max 
  Orioles 
  Friends 
  Ten Years 
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a 
In the Dawning Mist 
Pye 
I’ll Be Seeing You 
Mariquita 
From Winter Wonderland 
 
Your Gift 
  Snow and Me 
Warning: At Sixty! 


*Reprinted from Other Sources


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