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2020-06-10 Three Types of Death
All those days I wasted lamentingAll the sunsets I missed with my eyes fixed on a screen.All those neurons bounced around aimed at connection in pursuit of answers.The real opportunities missed as the clock ticks down to zero. Or near zero. Did you know that when you are pronounced dead, there’s a timer somewhere in…
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2020-05-05 What a Girl Really Wants 🍷
Yesterday was a long day. Just a blur. And I’m tired. I had that thing happen again, where I was inspired to write something but I was in the middle of something else and couldn’t just drop everything to get that down. I thought, foolishly, for the hundredth time that it would linger around long…
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2020-05-04 A Zone 7 Beauty Thriving in Zone 5
(Happy Star Wars Day Friends.. May the Force be with you today and always!) 😘 It’s a rainy Monday in Nebraska and my list of tasks never seems to lighten up. Instead of going there, though, and dwelling on the endless caravan of sideshow attractions, I’m gonna sit in the dirt and marvel at the…
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2020-04-29 Mathematics and Other Tragedies
I could draw myself into a spiral. I could pretend to be a straight line or paint my life as an isosceles triangle in perpetual motion. The faster it spins, the more the points blur into circles that create borders that can’t be penetrated. If I was reborn as a star, would I have five…
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2020-04-17 I’ve Got Too Much “Poor Me” in My Poetry
To be fair, I’m really referring to just the one poem I’ve reworked a hundred different ways and each time I try to sneak it into my manuscript, my mentor says “nope”. To be fair, he’s only seen two versions of it and not the fifteen I wrote before or the 30 I thought about…
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2020-04-16 Lottery Ticket Happiness
Every time I drive west across Nebraska on I-80 I’m full of hope and excitement about what’s to come. If I’m driving west on that long stretch of boring interstate I’m driving away from home and toward something fun and different, people I love and mountains I marvel. I know that soon I will be…
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2020-02-29 Cheers to Leap-Day and the Double-Dot ..
Today feels like a bonus day. Yesterday I wrote about some goals I have. Those are more general in nature and anyone who knows me knows that I also like to have little weekly and mid-tier monthly goals too. I have a white board that lives behind the door of my office that has a…
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2020-01-14 A Fast Moving Train
Full speed ahead. 18 days to go and last night before falling asleep I touched my forehead to his forehead in bed and asked for him to help me with my anxiety. He promised me it would be alright and that when it comes to it, he’ll talk me away from the edge. That’s all…
Miss SugarCookie 