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This stream of consciousness is intended to be an unfiltered account of my journey to fight my way to a healthier, happier life. One day at a time, one step at a time, one organically-grown-emotionally-raw blog post at a time…

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2024-04-19 Always halfway there…

Today’s Q&A is about pressure. As in… why I’m putting so much pressure on myself. And like most questions, it’s tightly wound with other questions, primary in this case is “Who cares?” If I never write or publish another poem in my life… who cares? If I don’t blog anymore… who cares? If I quit…
2024-04-18 It’s only life after all…

Today I’m “jumping into this day from yesterday’s sin.” I didn’t promise part two of the post I wrote last last week about “Small Magic” because the Universe has a way of thwarting my plans. But Huzzah! Here I am fresh from reading what I wrote that day and back to continue the conversation. And…
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…
2024-04-09 Being Open for Small Magic…

A few times recently I’ve had a spark of inspiration… something that feels noteworthy for one reason or another, but I just kind of ruminate on it for a minute, and then let it go. It’s like Elizabeth Gilbert talks about in Big Magic. Ideas are floating around the ether, looking for a host that…
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…
2024-02-11 I just thought you should know…

As I drive in my car, north on I-29 from Kansas City to Omaha Nebraska, my home, I’m thinking about how I still have not yet wrapped my head around the fact that it is 2024. Yet, here we are, already it’s February, and already AWP 2024 is in the rearview. It was my second…
Protected: 2024-01-11 Ain’t That Some Shit

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2024-01-07 The Cycles and Spirals of Life

I don’t think life ever really slows down. I think going to the MFA residency year after year has taught me that everything is cyclical and nothing ever ends, it just begins anew. Things change and happen a little differently, and there’s certainly evolution, but the life we think is a straight line is actually…