Monthly Archives: April 2016

He is gone and I am feeling it. I put up my defenses right away, “I don’t want anyone to tell me they are sorry” I said. I thought it was because it wouldn’t do any good. I wouldn’t know how  to respond… I know? I’m sorry too? But now I’m wondering if it was aContinue reading “It’s Sinking In”

What have I gotten myself into now, I wonder. I have wanted to move for the past couple of years. Our lease ends July 1st and when the renewal reminder came in the mail, I had kinda freaked out. It started as a few fleeting thoughts about more space, a new neighborhood, possibly a pool…Continue reading “Risky Business”

Because she’s the best. Supportive, nurturing, not afraid to critique- gently. She holds a sacred space for writers to come together and learn from one another. She’s awesome & if you want to be awesome too, you’d better sign up for one (or all) of her classes!   She has one opening in each of theContinue reading “Shameless Promotion for Rox!”

Welcome to Hell. This morning my daughter got to school. On time. I didn’t see it on the news, but it was huge. Way more important than that political ticker tape that crawled across the bottom of my TV screen on Super Tuesday interrupting an episode of The Voice. I was diagnosed with depression atContinue reading “I Have a Mental Illness & a Child with Special Needs”

Sorry to my subscribers who are probably getting bombarded with alerts that I have a new post up- I’m almost done! I’m trying to organize the blog and get some professional input on what to do, where to go from here along with some critiquing. Try to put my best word forward. In the meantime,Continue reading “Cat-ion Contest!”

“Listen to me sweet pea, don’t go up to any creepy looking people offering candy or kittens alright? Remember what we talked about?” “STRANGER DANGER!” “And what else?” “Don’t drop any F bombs in school?” “That’s my smart safety girl!” This is how I imagine our “stranger danger” safety talk would have sounded, if we’dContinue reading “The Danger in Teaching Stranger Danger”

As a kid, I was taught that pointing was rude. Extremely rude. I work as a delivery driver for a sandwich shop and was making the last drop of my shift, a single lunch, to a high-end orthopedic center that had its own concierge desk. The air was thick with pretension. She saw me comingContinue reading “Index Is The New Middle Finger”

“The Little Boy Lost” is a simple lyric poem written by William Blake. This poem is part of a larger work entitled Songs of Innocence. Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost. The night was dark, noContinue reading “Little Boy Loved”