Sitting Pretty in Your Dreams

I’m just going to pretend that what I say next will be perfectly expressed in such a cliche: I love my life.  I’m so thankful for it and I’m honestly stuck in “happy disbelief” at how it all turned around so quickly.  A year ago today I was physically very sick and spiritually challenged.  I [...]

I Need A Spot.

I wish I had a spot.  A safe spot that I could claim as my own and shut out the distractions and obligations that could honestly wait. In this place I would have a desk paired with a comfy chair suitable to lengthy writing sessions.  To my right would be my piano with my notebook [...]

Not Your Typical Spring Break…

I feel rushed. I shouldn’t–I have no one pressuring me to write.  But still, I feel this aching need to write about the past week in my life: all the little intricacies that I love.  I’d feel unimpressive and like I was missing my chance if I obstained from writing any longer.  Whether the following [...]

A Winter’s Wind

Leaves are turning—skipping stones across the pond face down to the earth. A singing robin improvises soul. Tweets from the trees since the first breath after birth. How hollow are the winds that blow those trees? And how high do they rest on top of those trees? Does that bird know the words to it’s [...]

…change…

Something has changed. I knew that I had fallen into something and was held down by it for quite some time. I was aware of my losses and my unrequited dreams.  And now, that something has been lifted.  I slipped back into myself and was once again on the inside looking out.  I can look [...]

A Memoir of “The Searching Bear”

As I sat on the couch, the leather clinging to my warm skin caused by my almost-constant presence, I thought about how much I wanted to be a writer. Again. Somehow, while looking to the future in my mind, a memory got in the mix and made me stop. Oddly enough, I was sitting on [...]