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2025-01-04 Maybe I Will, and Maybe I Won’t
In 2024 I spent a fair bit of time in reflection and despite the constant hum of hope vibrating in my core, actual life felt like a huge struggle much of the time. I entered the year in a self-imposed hibernation and was poised to come out swinging in February. I was going to make…
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2025-12-29 The Ultimate Chutes and Ladders
A few days ago I started a new entry, the all-encompassing year-end wrap-up. Cuz that’s my way. Or should I say, that’s usually my way. I’ve historically found it pretty satisfying to write about some topic, start to finish, where I can tie everything together with a beautiful bow and present it like a true…
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2024-12-17 Oh, Hello Again.
December 17th. Happy Birthday Kel. One of my oldest and dearest friends. We both rotated around the same circles in high school, tethered by the gravitational force of mutual friends and bonded by humor. I’m grateful for our many years of comradery and kinship. December 17th is a day that always seems to want to…
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2024-07-01 A Peek Behind the Curtain of Creation
No… not another origin story for some superhero or where life on planet Earth started. This is an “Account” of where my poems originate. “Account” is the name of one publication I’m interested in submitting work to. Their unique spin in the literary world is that they ask for (and publish) a separate document explaining…
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2024-06-12 Another Pub Update
Awww Lawdy! What’s this now? I’ve got like a million-gazillion goings going on including moving my daughter back from Lincoln today, dealing with AC out at the house, an important TGLR meeting tomorrow, and this Noom nonsense I’ve committed to doing this week. Why on Earth with all this, would my brain turn to a…
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2024-06-05 Closer to Fine
Today I’m Closer to Fine. Way back a hundred years ago on April 18th, I wrote about the big question of “What’s Next” in It’s Only Life After All. But when I began unpacking that question, it only led to more questions. I always wholeheartedly accept lists so these six questions didn’t really bother me.…
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2024-04-12 What it Means to be Seen and Heard…
I need to tell someone. But I don’t have anyone to tell. A therapist might say this need comes from my childhood when I was mostly ignored by my parents. I was a child doing a thing a child thought was the right thing to do – be seen and not heard. Turns out, I…
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2024-03-14 When the Veil is Lifted…
Truths are revealed. I haven’t written in a while, so today (for the 280th time), I’m writing about writing. Or rather, why I haven’t been writing. First I need to back up a smidge and speak frankly about the “veil” I’ve referred to in the title of this post. I think that sometimes we all…
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