I stayed up late New Year’s Eve — making a last-ditch, under-the-wire effort to meet my submission goals for 2017. “Getting my ducks in a row.” Or attempting to. I believe my husband said goodnight and went to bed at 8:30. Daughter #3 (the only duckling still at home) disappeared into the night around the […]
Whatever 2017 has been — an adventure, a slog, a learning opportunity, a chance for healing — we’re coming to the junction where it will end and 2018 will roll out ahead of us. I am working on getting caught up on my 2017 send-out of poems and stories (I’m determined to make my goal […]
Just when I’m pretty sure I’m writing into the void. Just when I’m flinching at the echoing silence that greets each new post, I hear from an old friend: I need to thank you for recommending One Small Step Can Change Your Life. It’s about small steps, but it’s had a huge impact on me. I’ve […]
These last few years, Thanksgiving has been hard for me, and Christmas, too. In the first 30 or so years of my adult life, those holidays meant traveling to the farm, where my parents lived, out the coast highway from Chehalis, Washington. As I’ve said here before, Mom was born in that house, and I […]