Over several months I spent time listening and learning from numerous women who had been stuck in their lives in one way or another. These are strong women who woke up and got dressed and continued to care for the people in their world despite the crushing inner weight of being stuck. (Okay – …
Every spring I have great hopes as I plant my garden. I can’t wait to see the radishes be the first to break the surface. About the same time the ground cracks down the bean row and it’s only a few days before their curved backs stretch out of the ground. It always …
My mom used to say, “My ‘get up and go’ has got up and went.” I’m sure we all can relate to that a time or two. The surprising thing is that phrase was spoken by a lady who had 10 kids in 13 years, 2 horses, 2 cows, 2 dogs, several chickens, sometimes a …
I can’t say I’m passionate about poetry. I rarely read it. I most often don’t get it.. What I do get is the feeling that the author is trying to communicate something and I just want to say “Out with it, already!’ Except my Dad’s poetry. He was a master of the Poetic form AABB, …
Sitting cross-legged on my office floor digging through 20+ years of journals I was confronted with some awful realizations. I listen to lots of podcasts and audio books and that morning while chasing dog hair around my house with the vacuum cleaner I heard a speaker say she was an avid journal writer. She …
