So this is love. On turning 40.
Sol de Janiero Bum Bum cream, the birthday gift from Sephora that at 40 now seems most enticing, open on my computer screen. The end of summer’s 15% off from […]
Category Archives: humanly ambitions
Teacher, Poet, Language Midwife
I was cooking dinner last December, thinking about what else to add in for more weekly income and work. I thought about a writing tutor position I had considered last year, […]
California Chronicles: Part 2
I sat there two days into the workshop, with smoke snaking its way high and low around us on the california coastline, the landscape having become the silent bearer of […]
California Chronicles: Part 1
Mist in the morning. Hawk Hover. I stood in the shower that morning with unpolished toes on thin worn linoleum, thinking maybe this was the contraction before the expansion. Twisting […]
The words, the writing
And so when I arrived late the first day, the Tribe was standing in an enclosed circle that parted ways to welcome me in. My appreciation of my own resilience […]
Arriving
I was leaving Boston because I needed texture. Something to hold onto again. Running towards the desire for authentic speech, words flowing up through a throat taught with streamlined and […]
Taking Flight
And then there are the times where our travel plans are still not perfect and we continue on anyway. Adapt, reroute, readjust to move forward into our own manifest destiny. […]
Spaces
And so maybe the reality is that is life feels uncomfortable and confusing, we know we’re doing it right. I was elated, relieved, partially skin-satiated in anticipating my journey to […]
Hush {Poetry}
And then I sang, and they listened In a room where the faint smell of cigarettes lingered above a muggy June carpet and outside, wet pavement breathed underneath red taillights, […]
Milking the Muscle
I loved them for not knowing, what time it was. For magenta sports bras paired with turquoise printed capri pants that weren’t worn looking for attention. For their foreign accents, […]
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