This morning I sat on my twelve-year-old daughter’s bed. Between us sat a dog named Indu. On the floor another dog stood at attention. Julio wanted us to play. My nine-year-old slowly woke in the room next door. And Chris stood watching the dogs, KK, and me. Then he said, “Mom looks like her teenage […]

Today I tucked one phrase into my brain, which rested, as usual, underneath my knit turquoise hat. When I asked myself what I wanted to bring to my Reiki appointment, I thought this: “one orange bicycle.” I’ve wanted to try Reiki ever since I heard my friend Jane Hewey is a Reiki practitioner. I can’t […]

Alexi Murdoch often whispers this thought in my ear: “It’s only fear.” It’s good he is my main Pandora station. Posturing that fear can be insignificant is a magnificent rational leap. My kids continually surprise me regarding the fear department. They have old apprehensions I think will always be with them. Then they shed these […]

A few weeks ago I received my first rejection from an agent. I felt so good about my psyche when I shrugged my shoulders and thought, “Oh, well. It would have been a miracle if the first agent who read chapters from my book loved it.” I mean, really, who expects miracles, anyway? It turns […]

  Oh, blog of mine, it has been so long. I hate visiting blogs I used to love and seeing the same old post. I am pretty sure that no one is visiting my blog in this manner. I do know, though, that there are new visitors thanks to the website I regularly blog for […]

For a few months now, I often hit play on a specific Taylor Swift song as I drive away from my house to run any number of errands. (Yes, I listen to Taylor Swift, converted by my 11-year-old girl, and I must say the 11-year-old girl that is still within me loves her lyrics.) The […]

I thought the well was dry the eyes still swollen from yesterday’s grief how could there be any salt left to mix with these tears that can’t stop flooding my eyes?   How come even if I already knew the words that were about to fall off the speech therapist’s tongue did I react with […]

Starlight moonlight sunlight all the light that fills me centers me runs me until I am running to stand still my still center moving until my body sings until my body collapses its worry into moving feet gliding over city sidewalks pounding out a rhythm a traction to my life a reason for being to […]

Not so long ago I worried Annie would never, ever love to read the way I love to read. I have adored reading books for as long as I can remember. My absolute adoration of books fed my desire to be a writer. Although sometimes I ponder what my life would have been like if […]