Nicky Mendenhall

I was homeless for a few days. It was 1997. Divorce final, family home sold, it was time…

If you looked through photographs stored on my computer, you would notice I like rocks. The ancient rock…

In an effort to understand the principles and gifts of wabi sabi, I’ve been snuggling with books on…

This week I had the urge to publish another poem written by Dorothy Walters*. Searching through posts to…

“Does Symmetry Kill?”  Last week I posed the symmetry question after wrestling with Marina Mander’s thought-provoking opinion piece…

“I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious* attendance, but sincerity…

For some reason this morning I began to reminisce about my paternal grandmother’s face. With a grimace on…

“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”  …

According to Koren,* the Japanese people who created the philosophy of wabi-sabi didn’t trust nature; they learned from it. From…

“Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like…