In the middle of last night, I was awake and listening. A plane flew overhead and it sounded so loud. Why was it so loud? Was it the way the clouds were structured at that moment in time? Night fog? Low, thick rain clouds? The airplane engines sounded scary and foreboding. Like it was the […]

Peanut butter & poetry is what I want Alliteration & cheese puffs, the natural kind I want rhyming and not rhyming (sometimes) Syllables set down without too much thought Words chosen for meaning and because they will not Stop spinning around my brain.   My eyes are buzzing from overload. A third of the day […]

Last night I was stressed, trying to decide if I should go to the high school social media talk for parents, the K-8 school talk on why failure is good for kids, or with my teen to get a book on launch day. I was making dinner and helping the tween with homework. The tween […]

Every morning I read my friend Rosemerry’s poetry at her website, One Hundred Falling Veils. I met Rosemerry when we both did an urban studies program in Chicago during a fall semester of our college years. We worked with poet David Hernandez while we were there, and I learned so much about the rhythm of […]

It’s Monday morning and I don’t know what to write here. I woke up and looked at my email and saw a new comment here from a poet. It took me hours to realize he visited this site because I have a poem published at Poetry Breakfast today. That’s cool, right? It points right back […]

I sing to the biscuits made with butter, may their crunch feed my girls. I sing out of tune as I dance in my socks. Praise be for the girl who tells me to stop with the singing— my syllable sounds always out-of-tune.   I sing to the clack & hum, clinking keys on my […]

“Those who move mountains begin by carrying away small stones.” –Chinese Proverb I’m sitting here today not knowing what to write, only knowing that I promised myself I’d blog every day. Why did I promise that? I want to see what shows up. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about writing and money, as I’ve […]

Suddenly my Annie has burst into blossom. I mean she’d been working to get here for years. She’s moved from a curled-up girl frustrated about sounds and letters to this girl who sings and laughs and blows me wide apart with her thoughts. I mean, she always has blown me wide apart. Don’t our kids […]

I’ve decided to jump on the November bandwagon and blog everyday. The thing I love about blogging is it’s random. Random thoughts that are not about perfection. Writing for work is about getting every word right, placing facts and quotes in the right order and giving good information (told in a clever way) to your […]

  I am a container for you. You are a container for me. We don’t think much of containers except when we can’t find their lids. I bought 3 boxes that fit one inside another, beautiful and solid, for $7, for myself, on a fairly recent birthday. I slide different things into them for my […]