During National Poetry Month, I’ll be doing some reading around town to celebrate. April 8 This Saturday, April 8, I’m reading with the World Peace Poets at 7 p.m. in Bellingham, at Village Books, at the debut of their second volume of collected poems. I have two poems in this collection, and I am a […]
I don’t know about you, but I spend a considerable amount of my energy fending off my feelings. I put myself down for feeling, I push little Bethany to put on her big-girl panties and deal with it. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, I tell myself. The truth, however, is that all my emphasis […]
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may be.” –May Sarton I have been thinking about fear. A lot. At our wonderful social-justice obsessed church, our pastor is doing a series on fear, and this coming Sunday I’m going to do the children’s time talk about “the fear of […]
For Lent I’ve given up perfectionism. From March 1 to April 15 this year I am giving up on straight A’s. I’m giving up my great love of A’s and the A’s that I always dreamed my daughters would care about (yet don’t). No A’s for perfectly good behavior, either. I’m embracing being the good-enough […]