Carolina Beaumont has lost everything -- her sweet suburban life, her ritzy house and gorgeous car, her identity as a wife and mother -- so she leaps up from the wreckage to embrace an old dream. In an intentional community, she finds a fire-swinging man, an idealistic young woman, and the me she used to be. Anything can happen in the Cicada Year, a time of change and awakening.

In Rebecca Boone: Love Makes a Home, Rebecca Boone, age 72, shares her own homespun wisdom and meaningful memories as she chops wood, cooks stew, and does her mending on a winter evening in 1811. The trail-blazing midwife didn't get the luxury of a home she could keep, but her adventures made up for what went missing. She walked through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Kentucky before she found her final rest in Missouri. She gave birth to ten biological children and adopted six more after her child-bearing years had ended. As she weaves linen, she recalls how her...

The poetry of LONE STAR LAKE reflects a time and place gone missing, but never forgotten. The poems linger like pebbles that skip across the flat gleam of the waves and settle quietly beneath them, awaiting discovery.

Children who have SKY EYES have seen trouble, and survive by knowing that they belong not only to this moment, but to the earth and the universe beyond any moment. In this play, Abby, hard-working railroader, takes strong steps to create a better life for her children. In performance, the play features original songs by Brad Hodge.

The blessings of family love made it possible for one woman to survive childhood terrors. Touring in the South of France, she puts those terrors to rest among strengthening experiences. A journey to Tornado Alley will not be forgotten.