I'm walking out the door like a cyborg these days: phone, earbuds, camera, digital recorder, lavalier mic. Plus doggo, plus cane (aka defensive weapon against geese), plus sun hat...it's an expedition! That said, Keely is very impatient while I gear up, and is not...
I am working with two other brilliant creators to start a new podcast! Join me, Gina Hogan Edwards, and Melody, A Scout, as we talk about all things writing. It's called Around the Writer's Table and the tag for the podcast is "Craft, Creativity, and Conscious...
Today, January 4th, 2022, I turned in my resignation at FSU. There is a long story behind this decision, possibly only interesting to myself. I’ll post that some other time, as documentation if nothing else. Right now, though, I want to mark this moment because it is...
It only takes a few times for the violence inflicted upon us to become the violence we enact upon ourselves.
I’ve survived longer than my mother’s whole, entire, bookended lifespan.
My 51st birthday was a few days ago. It is, more importantly, also my mother’s birthday. Mother died on September 15th, 1994, exactly one month after her 51st birthday. In less than a month, if I am still alive (knock on wood!), I will have outlived her whole...
Once you do have some money (hurrah!!!!), and you aren’t quite poor anymore…then what?
Oddly, the comforting constant of my life has become the air conditioner switching on and off. It is always there in the background, and I can always hear it because generally, I’m always alone. This is not something that bothers me. Being alone has been my normal...
Change, even change born out of lightening-fast trauma, ends up taking a lot of time.