4 min41As I enter into my 41st year, I felt a sudden desire to return here to my blog and write. It has been awhile. I have shared poems and...
3 minBack To SchoolAs I write this, I am sitting on my bed, around 9:30 pm on Monday night, Labor Day. The house is restless with all sorts of...
2 minGroundingDear friends, I wanted to share a few words that I had scribbled down in my journal last week. I was traveling to San Francisco, and I...
3 minFooling AroundWhen I first started my blog a couple of years ago, I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. My initial vision was to share a few brief...
1 minWhere I Don’t BelongIn today’s installment of what’s beautiful, I only first found what was broken, until I caught a fleeting glimpse of what laid...
3 minRed Lipstick and the Quest For Perfection“You awake? :)))” “Yes!” “Do you have the energy for me to unload some of my crazy on you? :)))” “Yes!” And so our text exchange began,...
1 minFragileIn a different life, I took scalpel to skin, cut through fibrous layers of muscle and fascia to the very deepest core of our biology, ...
3 minThe HustleFor the most part, I have always considered it a good thing to “hustle.” The very word conjures up images of burning the midnight lamp,...
1 minSoaringWe could wait for a thousand days and nights, a lifetime really, to be given the green light. The sign that we are good enough to...
3 minThe Love Of A ChildLast week, I returned home from work to find my kids excitedly scurrying around the kitchen. On the counter lay cupcakes in a flower...
4 minThe Big 4-0: Twelve Things I (sort of) Know For SureWith my birthday rapidly approaching, I set out to write a post about “What I Know For Sure” after forty revolutions around the sun. And...
1 minLiving Slow, Thinking FastToday was a day of living slow yet thinking fast, all of which is to say that life unfolded only in my head with little to no direct...
1 minAll The QuestionsSometimes when the loudness around us has settled into a quiet lull, let’s ask each other all the questions that pulse deep within....
1 minNowSomewhere between dreaming big and living in small, ordinary moments, I am lost without a compass. There are fleeting thoughts of ...
2 minLandscapeThe landscape of my body holds stories that will never be told, perhaps even words that I have never known– ancient dictionaries...
1 minThere Is TimeWithin us echoes the quiet wail, “There is no time, There is no time.” Time is lost in the striving to fill empty spaces that can...
2 minA True StoryThere once was a true story of a middle aged woman (when did that happen?) who often didn’t know who she was. She wanted to be able to...
1 minMagicA life lived in poetry is 10:08 pm on Monday night with my journal and pen and a restless, racing mind over tired shoulders that carry...
1 minMonday MorningMonday morning at 7:03 am. A layer of gray is settling across the heavy closed sky and threatening Monday rain. The water creeps into...
2 minWaiting For PerfectI am just sitting down in the early hours of Saturday morning with a cup of coffee and my journal. My plan is to meditate for a few...