It's interesting that the great poet of Ireland, a country long associated with strife and troubles, should have written a poem containing one of the best-known uses in poetry of the word "peace." ...

A poem that imagines a peace and goodness that can’t possibly exist in a fallen world. Yet while you might want to arise and go, and go to Innisfree, you can’t get there from here.

Beside our fireplace mantle at the lake we have a small framed copy of this poem. I have loved it for its sounds, more than anything. When I was young, I used to lie in bed and listen to the waves ...

My husband, Jerry, is already getting edgy, wanting to open the cottage, turn on the water, light the pilot on the heater, and rediscover the objects of our alternative life. Every day I hear about ...