I’m feeling weird late balanced underdressed in hopes of a sunny tomorrow in hopes of a bright today in hopes my hair will cooperate in hopes I’ll get to see you in knowing whatever happens happens. I’m feeling okay here now watched and watching. I’m marching on the old me, a woman marching into who […]

where do you go when you go silent, he said as if she hadn’t yet been made mute, in her own mind she spoke sermons of self-love, self-empowerment to the shadow by her side, she stayed silent … Source: when we go silent

hello, it’s me. how are you? i heard from your good friend the other day, the one who always believed in you and me. a save the date was all he sent. i feel so much joy for him, and i can’t wait to share such a beautiful day with him and his. will it be […]

Something in the solidarity of my offer’s acceptance, something in this third solitary move of mine, something in the space my own pace creates helps me know I’m finally free. Something in the concepts I’m creating, the chapters I’ve chosen to close, the present moment I have – something in it heals me. Something in […]

The clouds, they cover, hover, rain down new lovers. The clouds set in high and dry, leaving me absolutely head over heels in love with this place. The clouds set down, fog lowering, glowering in my head beams as I make my way home from and into endless possibilities. This hill I rule myself upon […]

Twinkling lights, icy sidewalks, forest green peeking out from under a blanket of white. These are things I’ve been given alone, things I’ve seen on walks on my own two feet.  My own ten toes, my own two eyes leading me across this ice rink, skating, swaying between the  edges, hoping to make it across […]

Here’s to this 25th year, this 20something labyrinth we seem to forever wind our way through. It’ll be over before we know it, so let’s raise the stakes and our glasses full of open possibilities to what may come today, tomorrow, in the next five years, in this life.  Here’s to your day, to our […]

I was a young girl when I met you. Cheerful, optimistic, and consumed with problems I thought meant the world.  Something changed, some things changed. I changed. I’ve grown. Some issues are still present. I find them to be small in the scheme of this world, this land. This orbiting glob of once liquid magma.  […]

Today I am my own woman. Kangaroo tail thumping, legs strong and basing, my journey across this hot and dry savannah is my own. No one is by my side, and that’s all right. When a companion thrives with me, we will travel together to lush green forests, waterfalls so fresh with new aqueous joy. […]