Miss SugarCookie

Category: writing

  • 2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…

    2024-12-28 Oh Those MFA Feels…

    I’m headed back to Nebraska City today. The home of UNOs MFA residency experience, the birthplace of my poetry career. Can a person craft a career out of poetry?  No.  That’s laughable. But it’s the cool aid they serve and I drank it in giant gulps.  I exaggerate, of course, because that’s my way. A…

  • 2024-12-17 Oh, Hello Again.

    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…

  • 2024-12-10 My current “would you rather” situation…

    2024-12-10 My current “would you rather” situation…

    I’m so tired. My sleep has been shit lately but I my creative spark has been lit and that’s probably the reason. What a trade off, huh?! I mean, after all the blah blah woof woof about “What Next” and existential dread this year – the woe is me and “whatever will I do since…

  • 2024-12-06 But you still don’t like to leave before the end of the show…

    2024-12-06 But you still don’t like to leave before the end of the show…

    A lyric from a sad song about how tough life is and how terrible people can be. But we’re gonna stick around anyhow to witness how it all turns out. Right?!  What else can we do, anyway. The alternative is pretty bleak and I wouldn’t wish those thoughts on my worst enemy.  How about the…

  • 2024-10-29 Still Kicking It (The Can, Down the Road)

    2024-10-29 Still Kicking It (The Can, Down the Road)

    September came and went. October too, it seems. How easily time slips away when… whenever, however, whatever always happens.  It’s been a few months since I rubbed a couple sticks together and made a spark of a sentence. There are a few forces behind my hiatus from writing. The first of which is a fall…

  • 2024-08-30 Mercury Can Just Eff Off Already

    2024-08-30 Mercury Can Just Eff Off Already

    I had high hopes for August. Such high, high hopes. But sometimes a girl sets her expectations too high. Something in the Universe told me it would be a fantastic month so who was I to argue?!  About half way through I was still holding on to hope despite the “shit show” that had been…

  • 2024-08-08 808 Like a Drum..

    2024-08-08 808 Like a Drum..

    An oldie that never gets old. Maybe someday someone will say that about me. 😂 This past couple weeks reading fiction for The Good Life Review in between trips to different hospitals, medical centers, and council bluffs has me thinking of all these one or two line vignettes that feel like silk in my head.  Mostly…

  • 2024-07-01 A Peek Behind the Curtain of Creation

    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…