As a fierce nor’easter bears down on her Massachusetts town, Fiona Richter places a frantic 911 call: her husband, Simon, eighty years old and suffering from dementia, has gone missing from the house—along with his clarinet . . . So begins The Singing Stick, the story of a son, his long-dead mother, and the music that anchors them both in times of great unmooring.

Additional books: Poetry of Presence II: More Mindfulness Poems (2023) and Staying Power 2: A Year of Emergence (2022).