Miss SugarCookie

Category: journal

2022-09-28 Destined to Fail… 🩸

I’m not worried about my health because I’m in great shape for my age. I’ll probably be saying that for the next 30 years. As I age, all the parts of my body that fail will likely be very appropriate for whatever age I might be when that happens. It’s been true for my eyes…

September 28, 2022
2022-09-18 The Most Underutilized Magic 8 Ball Answer… 🎱

“Concentrate and ask again” There’s always a lot going on, you know, and life never seems to slow down. By now I’ve realized that this notion I always have that things are going to slow down any minute is a trick of the mind. And that I’m my own worst enemy, ensuring that it doesn’t.…

September 18, 2022
2022-09-12 A Play-By-Play of My Own Personal Inferno

The days come and go. Things happen that feel *noteworthy* but I’m not taking notes. In my head, a dozen times, I’ve thought about posting those pictures I took at UNL last week. I got invited by my darling daughter to read poems in the sound booth for an assignment. I’d never been in a…

September 13, 2022
2022-09-03 The One About Pleasing People

Historically, I finish things I start. Unfinished business really tugs at my brain (and heart) and even worse if that involves tarnishing my reputation in someone else’s eyes. For all the times I’ve tried to throw my hands up and say “I don’t give a fuck what other people think” I should have learned that…

September 3, 2022
2022-08-26 Epic Summer Road Trip Days 3,4,&6: Big Scenery and Big Changes in Scenery

We decided on another leisurely morning on Tuesday and slept in (sort of) instead of getting up early to catch the sunrise. The sunset is where it’s at anyhow. I say “sort of” because we still got up relatively early and did that exercise thing we do. This is part of how I know I’m…

August 28, 2022
2022-08-23 Epic Summer Road Trip Days 1 & 2: To Moab & the Arches

Days 1 and 2 have involved a lot of driving. Somehow every trip that Jim and I have planned since getting married has been this way. Mostly because of the pandemic and the nix on air travel. But even for destinations we’ve flown to like Oregon, the “exploration” factor has been high where we’ve only…

August 24, 2022
2022-08-21 Epic Summer Road Trip Day 0: Reading poetry, chaos, and exhaustion.. but I didn’t die! 😂

Yesterday I bit off more than I could chew but I survived. I sacrificed day 0 of my vacation to do a reading at a local bookstore cuz 1: It was a Saturday and I knew there was a bigger chance more people could go on a Saturday. And 2:There weren’t a lot of other…

August 21, 2022
2022-08-16 Miss SugarCookie Attempts Shameless Self-Promotion…

Calling all the cool people in the Omaha/Lincoln/Council Bluffs metro area. You know who you are and you know where you need to be this Saturday! The Bookworm in Omaha at 1pm to hear local poetry peeps reading from their respective books. More info about who and what here. I’ll be reading from my collection, Unsuspecting…

August 16, 2022