Thinking about what growing up with a difficult relationship with my father taught me about dealing with uncertainty and learning self-reliance, and with an understanding that fear and trust issues were set to seed, as …
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New poem, “Seesaw”
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New poem, “Shut the Door”
Figuring out how to say goodbye to the past has been on my mind lately. Although I’m not sure there’s a way to ever fully do that, I think we can come pretty close when …
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New poem, “Forgiving Night”
A short ode to the magical time and place when anything feels possible, and where everything eventually ends.
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New Poem, “Well Spent”
My version of a little love poem for today, to life and all the brief, amazing moments of it that come our way.
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New poem, “Travel Light”
Considering the notion that, the further we go through life, hopefully we learn to move on from what lies behind us, both good things as well as bad, having learned from it all.
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New poem, “Midwinter Night”
I love how clear the stars often are this time of year, something about the cold makes them seem brighter. Sometimes you can see other wonders, too, if you only look up and wait long …
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New poem, “The Outside Line”
Imagining how sometimes the people and experiences we encounter in life can arrive seemingly out of nowhere, throwing us off-balance, whether or not they turn out to be positive ones. Learning to steer by what’s …
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New poem, “Trespass”
Dreaming a bit about taking a trip to Scotland one day, which I recently learned has no such laws. Quite a contrast to this country, where ownership and possession are so highly prized.
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New poem, “Signposts”
Thinking about the hard things we go through, and how sometimes they can actually end up helping others. This happens to me a lot as a nurse, people telling me their stories, and then I …
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New poem, “True North”
As the evening closes in, I’m contemplating the past – times both joyful and difficult- and thinking ahead to the coming new year, and new decade, really, and hoping it’s a great one for us …
