Sometimes these days I have moments where I can’t, and don’t want to, feel anything anymore. Whether fear, concern, or sadness, it seems too much. As a nurse I feel it doubly at those times, …
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New poem, “Cruel Release”
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New poem, “Small Glories”
Here is a brief, bright poem for the spring equinox. Nature reminds me daily that it moves through its own rhythms regardless of human beings, and though that makes me feel very small sometimes, it …
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New poem, “Seesaw”
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, “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, “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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Embracing a Helping Hand
Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, I had a new friend. I was humbled once again, by the way the universe works sometimes...
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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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Greeting the New Year
After all, it really is a day just like any other, except in what we make of it.
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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 …
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Of Childish Things
There is so much joy to be found in being silly sometimes, I know, in doing things just because you want to, with no other excuse needed.
