The Glory of Green
Our country property in Indiana is finally, gloriously saturated with green. I've never been so hungry and so thirsty for green! After this long hard winter and all its whiteness, and then the endless drabness of early spring, when it simply wouldn't green, when the plants and the trees and the ground were simply too exhausted, it is so [...]
A Jewel Box for Ideas
My Morning Pages are really a jewel box for ideas. I realized, in writing this morning, that ideas function with the same abundance principle as the rest of life. If we just listen, if we just let our mind idle long enough, they pop up, in never ending quantities, from the stream of (un)consciousness where I guess they live. When [...]
Joy is…
...hearing that one of my best friends got a job. She's been dealt a heavy blow of fate this year and so, after 14 years out of the workforce as a homemaker, she had to get out there again and find work. And she did! After five months of looking and despairing, she did! I am just so happy that [...]
Is My Story Dramatic Enough?
Last week my essay "Is My Story Dramatic Enough?" was published in the Washington Independent Review of Books. Its foundation was laid one evening when one of my students stopped me in the hallway after our memoir class and said, “All these stories are so dramatic! Where is the drama in mine? It’s just about a cat!” Granted, we had [...]
Living with Chronic Pain
I can't write about the book I recently finished and liked so much, Lynne Greenberg's The Body Broken, without going into my own experience of chronic pain, which is why I got interested in her book. I've grappled with sharing this story, because I know it will make for an unusually long post, but alas, I can see no [...]
Eyeing the Emptying Nest
I've been in a blogging slump, and I figure it's better to admit that than to publish lackluster posts. There are books I want to write about, photo essays I want to put together, and I just can't bring myself to do them. Sure, there's a lot going on in my life right now, but I wonder if that's the reason [...]