A place for rambles, art, and delicate things.
While this minimalist blog space is perfect for my writing portfolio and journaling, I'm also a visual artist who dabbles in collage, digital art, and photography. To see the products of my other artistic outlet, you can visit my Flickr albums here: Analog Collage 2023 Digital Collage 2024 Digital Collage Digital Art Pieces of Me Windows Autumnal Dormancy Heart Words
micro-blogging words. every day in this country there is another wound on our hearts undated I have never done any drug harder than alcohol, but I'm telling ya, when I'm an old woman I'm going to smoke a little weed and just not give a shit what other people are doing with their own damn lives. undated (sometime in 2024?) Don't let men steal your time from creating and writing and being and rising…
(spring) Spring fell in three days of relentless rain. Soaking the first sprouts and turning yards to fresh mud. While we waited for the leaves, the birds filled the trees instead, with long awaited song. Soon the colors will wake from their long sleep, and we will believe that hope is what made it all bloom once more. (crone) I had a revelation last night about how I've gone through life never…
An offering of story poems. Here we enter into the realm of fantasy, whimsy, and storytelling. An escape into a world where anything is possible and sometimes things aren’t always what they seem. A story land of dark and light. Enjoy your stay! Poem Samples The most delicate of feet landed like imagination onto her open face, impossible lacework resting ust for a moment before darting back to the…
Do all poets write love poems? Maybe all poetry is a love poem to something. This is my collection of offerings to the volumes of love poems that speak to the heart. Love that works, love that hurts. Unrequited love, long distance love, soft love. It is through the words of poets that we learn that we are not alone in all the ways we love. this poem was supposed to be about love and it is if you…
In The Leaving Women, we have two women who meet on a train, Shelley and Leigha. Very different women who are both leaving something behind. They take turns telling their stories to each other as the train carries them further from their pasts. The Leaving Women started as a single poem and grew into an idea as I wrote more poems in a series. I have always liked the idea of telling a story through…
This offering of quiet poetry seeks to unite through the collective experience of heartbreak, redemption, and living in a modern tapestry that seems to be unraveling one sunset thread at a time. Air Over Bone was my first collection of poetry, self published in 2018 as a print book that I have since decided to give it away for free as a PDF. I’m very proud of the poems in this collection of quiet…
reading logs. 2025 I Am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll I Thought it was Just Me - Brene Brown Heat Wave - Eric Klinenberg Making Things Work - Yaneer Bar-Yam Insomnia - Stephen King Let Them - Mel Robbins Gray - Pete Wentz Real Self Care - Pooja Lakshmin A World of Art - Henry Sayre The Staircase in the Woods - Chuck Wendig All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Burnout - Emily and…
Music is soul food. 1985 Huey Lewis and the News/Neville Brothers Huey Lewis and the News Huey Lewis and the News/Robert Cray Rick Astley Winger/Slaughter/Kiss Nelson Cry Wolf Whitesnake/Great White Randy Travis/KT Oslin Charlie Daniels Band Bruce Hornsby and the Range Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Mary Chapin Carpenter Ralph Covert and the Bad Examples The Monkees (twice) Pearl Jam/My…
I Love... { an ever evolving list } …writing poems no one will read …cookies dipped in coffee 🍪 …hotel lobby breakfasts …My Chemical Romance …going out for breakfast ...books and reading 📚 ...my daughters ...him ❣️ ...my friends …libraries and bookstores …stationary and office supplies …Star Wars ...MCU ...flowers 🌷 ... Fall Out Boy ...concerts ...cute little mushrooms 🍄 ...daydreaming and…