New Year, New Look
Monday, February 02, 2026Hi everyone! It was time for a change and so my blog looks a little different. Thank you to my web designer who did this for me. My blog is now part of a new website where you can see my books and my editing business.
One other important announcement is Book 2 of The Mill Valley High series will be available next week, February 16 -22nd. It will be launched from Griffin Publishing on Zoom. Here is the book cover:
Since I don't have an author yet for this month I am posting two poems. One is published in TheNortheast Coast and the other is in response to the awful killing of Alex Pretti. I wrote mine without seeing any of the others that were written. It came from the anguish I felt when I saw that killing.
Until their words don’t hurt me,
my ears will pretend they can
bounce words like rubber balls,
fling them over the fence like
unwanted weeds.
My feet will stay planted on the
ground I know, and my body will be
a wall protecting the fragile underside
of my soul,
unaware of the barbs from
the scars of those fierce words
as they are pitched out willy nilly,
tearing the corners of
my clamoring ego
that tattered and pieced together
puts its brave face to the world.
And ignores the mean spirits
as if they were feathers in the
air of my life.
Copyright 2026 –Barbara Ehrentreu Here is the video that shows me reading it:
Blood On the Flag: The Killing of Alex Pretti In
On Saturday an innocent man was killed
Another masked thug emptied his gun into an unarmed man
whose only crime was to protect a woman
Did this ICE agent know he killed an angel on earth?
A man who cared more for others than himself
Worried about the welfare of a woman assaulted
Who he tried to help asking with his last words: “ Are you okay?”
As they pepper sprayed him and her
Pushed him down and in cold blood forever placed his blood on the American flag.i
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