Last week, I had an overwhelming desire to withdraw from everything. Like the mustard-hued sludge the EPA workers inadvertently released down the Colorado River, my emotions colored and flooded my mind. My mother's recent death; the humbling number of edits necessary to make my manuscript work and the start of the back-to-school shuffle, all put me in a draining state [...]
I experienced a dating drought at the beginning of this year. My phone stopped ringing, my Match.com inbox dried up and I felt untethered. I felt real loneliness for the first time since my ex-husband moved out two years ago. It was strange. My whole being seemed to wither. I contributed meagerly to conversations. Writing ideas were few and [...]
Woody Harrelson all natural. Who knew Woody Harrelson wrote poetry? I didn’t, until recently when I ran across his poem, Alien Creature, and this line of clarity: I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. Me too. When do we get to free-write through life with our modifiers dangling, [...]
Not me and my son, but a sweet picture nonetheless. I’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s not all exotic trips, personal trainers and daydreaming at my house. Yes, the home behind the blog is flawed. Last week was especially trying. The air was thick and suffocating, the floor was sprinkled with [...]
