Posts in the Category: published

BREATH MY ONLY BOUNDARY

By Posted in - general & poetry & published & Uncategorized & writing on February 12th, 2021 0 Comments

HI Y’ALL! I appreciate all your sweet messages and thanks for checking on me. In answer to the two questions I get asked most: YES I am still writing and YES I am still in …

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WAIT

By Posted in - encouragement & grief & poetry & published & writing on April 10th, 2020 3 Comments

a poem about suffering and what it means to

W A I T

what I wouldn’t give
to rise
from this window seat of longing
and brave my way into the gray
and through the gray
to part
the veil that obscures life …

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How My Fear Became Faith

By Posted in - courage & published & Uncategorized & writing on March 15th, 2020 3 Comments

Fear was my father’s favorite game and one I learned to play at four years old.

With gleaming green eyes and a wicked sense of humor, my father was a force. His family had always been …

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On Courage & Community

By Posted in - published on February 20th, 2020 2 Comments

In case you missed the big announcement in my last post, I recently had an article published in Fathom Magazine in which I share how I learned the importance of developing close community and how …

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I Owe You an Apology

By Posted in - general & published & random & Uncategorized & writing on January 30th, 2020 3 Comments

Actually, I owe you two. Shall we begin?

(1) Please forgive me for being MIA for the past few several months. As you might remember, I am currently working on getting my master’s and, as it …

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no laughing matter (although it IS pretty funny now)

By Posted in - dogs & favorites & general & humor & published & random on September 12th, 2018 0 Comments

I thought I would re-share this little gem in honor of the 5th anniversary of this debacle. It is a crowd favorite and has even been picked up for publication a number of times. Now, …

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good friday

By Posted in - general & poetry & published on April 3rd, 2015 0 Comments

Good Friday

Who am I, that you’d suffer and die
That your innocent blood would let
So that I’d be redeemed and now be free
To be the person I am not yet

The nails that …

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