Ten years ago we lost Hatch’s search partner Piper. I remember how, in her last days, she’d gaze across the swale where I still feel her...

Here’s a disjointed sonnet from a few years back: Avalanche Aubade For just an instant she holds him in bright air faceted as crystal....

A poem from Wren Tuatha’s Pandemic//Planet//Protests: Poetry of Place workshop sponsored by Sacramento Poetry Center. The interrogation...

I wrote this poem a few years ago recalling a ridgetop above Somerset, at the end of a little dirt road where Hatch built a...

from Black History Month hosted by Black Lives Matter El Dorado County and Poetry of the Sierra Foothills, an Art & Poetry event (Feb....

A poem for today’s Black History Month art & poetry event in front of Placerville Courthouse: Master, Slave for William Wells Brown in...

We’ve finally got our first Covid-19 vaccination scheduled! Here’s a poem (a pantoum) from last April, in lockdown, recalling past...

This blog carries on our now-defunct website, SomersetSunset.net, posting information on (Judy) Taylor Graham’s poetry. Her bio in the...

Here’s a list of our Shepherds we've trained over the years to find people, with their years of SAR training & service, and dates of...

Loki (Kuskokwim Loki von Goeman CGC) came to us at 4 months, super-high energy unchecked. In spite of obedience classes, her aim is to...

Hatch and I stopped responding to searches years ago, but we still keep up with weekly training, laying trails and otherwise helping...