Crossing the Waters Author|Colleen Baldrica No matter what I'm here

No matter what I'm here to stay

is a worshiper of Jesus

In this collection of portraits the eye is the vital "lamp of the body " a spiritual organ van Eerden uses to craft essays that are as much encounters as they are likenesses as much being seen as seeing

his family home outside of Minneapolis

Crossing the Waters Author|Colleen Baldrica No matter what I'm hereNorita Dittberner Jax's new collection Crossing the Waters chronicles the daily triumphs and setbacks fears and recollections that arose when her husband Gene was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Her first response is a shock so deep the dreaming shut down. But the poet adept at exploring the range of emotions from wistfulness and joy to panic and desperation regains her bearings to capture details of the roller coaster days and weeks following