Katherine Elberfeld

The deep, the drink, Davy Jones’ locker, the bounding main, the briny deep.  All names for the oceans of the earth, encompassing their mighty features and mysteries:  waves, legends of… Read More »The Briny Deep

September 11, 2018:  Thousands of survivors, rescuers and relatives of the dead gathered at the national memorial in New York City to honor those who had died in the horrific… Read More »A Holy Place

The air shimmered.  A flash cut the sky, but no thunder.  The ground quivered, then settled, as in an earthquake. Polly looked around.  Trees grew thicker, taller.   A lake filled… Read More »Circles of Time

Subjects and predicates, past tense and future tense, dangling participles, active and passive voice.  Ah, the wondrous days of seventh grade English class. In active voice, of course, the subject… Read More »Active Voice

It’s a great emoji:  The little yellow face is tilted to the left, with a teeth-revealing grin and pink tongue sticking out at the corner of the mouth.  Two eyes. … Read More »Beyond the Emoji

As Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11 in 1963, astronaut Mike Collins orbited the moon alone while his co-explorers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin famously landed, walked and hopped on… Read More »Not of this world

Most of us keep mementos, keepsakes that we cherish, often in the form of photographs.  They can be in a gold locket we wear around our neck.  They can be… Read More »Keepsake

It was the dawning of the age of Aquarius. Beads of all colors – red, orange, yellow, green, blue. Long frizzy hair on girls and boys, men and women. Tie-dyed shirts and dresses.… Read More »Aquarius

Butterflies, dragonflies, katydids, hummingbirds, ladybugs. Translucence; gossamer wings. Translucence breathes between the lines as Luke’s tells the story of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples after his resurrection; a gauzy presence; earthly and real,… Read More »Gossamer Wings

They took each other’s arms and started to walk. Arm in arm they crossed the Alabama River on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.  The Selma civil rights march, which took… Read More »Love Unknown