Life is Stranger Than Fiction
Long ago I wanted to be a writer. Back when I was eight years old and I filled spiral notebooks with stories and drawings about a little girl who ran away from home to live on an island, but could...
View ArticleGrace
“All-Surrounding Grace” Denise Levertov As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain freefall, and float...
View ArticleWishing Won’t Make It So
You’ve heard the expression right? I believe it’s meant to call us to action. To tell us that our thoughts won’t lead to results. But, although I think cliches often contain a kernel of general truth,...
View ArticleShattering Perfection
Inside there is a story of great importance. The characters and plot pieces interlock in a unique and compelling way. It occurs against stark and beautiful backdrops. It has a reason, I know what I am...
View ArticleNight Shift
At the moment, I work the night shift. It’s really more of an afternoon shift going from 2 PM to 10 PM. It’s not conducive to a social life. Or much else. One would think you would get more work done...
View ArticleMoving Forward in a Place Filled With History
I’ve returned from an idyllic world where girls wear boots with sundresses and stroll tree-lined streets, pausing in park after park, holding hands with sweatshirt clad young men, smelling sweet...
View ArticleConfessions of a Compulsive List Maker
For three weeks now I have had it on my to do list. Post on your blog. And then there will be a list of ideas even. The gummy vitamins taste too good and are like candy. The uncanny accuracy and...
View ArticleThe Great Mysterious Uknown
Pause to Wonder – Albert Einstein “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer...
View ArticleAcceptance
For a moment this was going to be called – Acceptance, a bitter little pill. But then I thought about the weightlessness, the ability to smile at a song lyric or a fleeting thought, the general...
View ArticleJunk Drawer
The junk drawer is the place for those things which have no category, no neat and orderly slot to fall into. It’s not necessarily junk in the junk drawer really. If it were junk why would we keep it?...
View Article