Writing Questions
After feeling a need to avoid pause and to avoid questions that my strangle me, I learned ways to use pause and questions to help me grow and deepen my fiction.
Broken and Becoming
We all break, become unglued, or lost. But the important thing is not that we’re broken. it’s what we become after we break, after we sink into the soil for a few years, after we free ourselves from the glue and grout of expectations.
From Our Fathers
This week I feel the joy of our fathers as I make my little bluebird birdhouses. I’m grateful for the gifts they bring to their workshops.
It Was There All Along
Imagine the organizations and groups just waiting to take you in, to validate your passions and provide safe spaces to explore them. They’ve probably been there all along.
Moms and Cowbirds, a Story
Some people might say “She’s not nice,” but Mom helped me find the good things, art from her good days and photos from her family. Mom reminded me that addiction is disease and a struggle to survive.
It’s Coming
In 2017 she began telling anyone who would listen, “It’s coming.” My response for several months was, “Stop! You’re going to bring it on sooner.” But she knew is was coming, and we couldn’t (wouldn’t) see it yet.
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