In My Own Words
thoughts on writing, books and life
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Sacred Spaces
The sacred spaces of a homebody…It’s a difficult task to describe places that are sacred to me, the person who jokes about home being the only sacred space. The girl…
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Another course, another 2 minutes of words
I’ve started another writing course and I think this 2 minute write may eventually evolve into something more… This is what happened. Just give me a second to catch my…
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Earth Girl
I don’t know if I ever was an earth girl. Of course, I’m an earthling, born and raised here, but the earth itself was never my favorite place. There’s a…
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A little self love
A little self love experiment from class tonight. Damn girl, Look what you’ve done. Pregnant at nineteen, single mom at twenty, now you’re a wannabe fairy living your dream life…
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Words From the Poet in Me
I started taking some writing courses recently. It was a bit intimidating at first. I haven’t taken a writing class since high school but these classes with Laura Lentz have…
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I Wish I'd Asked
A little course work on ancestors… They remind us they love us in their own peculiar ways. Janice with her flower talk, Ilene with her frosting. Giving bits of themselves…
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In Barbie World…
Growing up, I was a Barbie Girl. I had everything a young girl in the 80s needed for the perfect Barbie World and it occupied most of my closet floor.…
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My Voice
I started a writing class recently and last night we wrote about finding our voice and I decided to share here what I wrote for class. While preparing for the…
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My Week With Covid-19
So, it finally happened. We went out into the world and brought home Covid. I was in denial for the first 24 hours or so, but Rich’s fever spiked over…
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Two months in…
Wow…It’s almost March already in this year 2023, and my non-resolution resolution obviously didn’t stick. I”m to blame, but I have excuses. I mean, I’m a writer, I think we…