Listening Points.
      Appeared in the Fall 2025 Issue of Illinois Audubon magazine, pages 19-22.

Reflections on Racial Disharmony.
     Appeared in the March-April 2025 Issue of Illinois Heritage magazine, pages 14-16.

Wheelbarrow Blues.
     Appeared (2023) in Roads We've Taken: A Writers on the Avenue Anthology, pages 81-86.

Into the Wind.
     Appeared in Issue 41 (Winter 2023) of Shark Reef: A Literary Magazine (online).

Town Walking.
     Appeared (2021) in the anthology These Interesting Times: Surviving 2020 in the Quad Cities, pages 99-103.

 Accordion Boy.
     Appeared in Issue 8 (2020) of Sobotka Literary Magazine, pages 60-67.

Change and Comfort in Nature.
     Appeared in Volume 16.1 (2016) of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, pages 66-73.

The Acorn Year.
     Appeared in Volume 14.2 (2014) of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, pages 18-25.