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Advice, please

So, here’s something about me: I’m shy on first meeting. No one believes me when I tell them that, but it’s painfully true. After the first introductions, I’m great. Anyway, why you needed because: down the road a short distance live two teenage girls who I occasionally wave to as we drive past each other, [...]

A Sunday list

… French toast with local syrup …Freezing rain & sleet ….The power is back on (yesterday it was out nearly all day–a tree down at the end of the road) …Reading Vanity Fair cover to cover … Re-reading the underlined parts in favorite books … Writing lesson plans for the week …. Hibernating What are [...]

The helter skelter arc of my heart

I took the day off from work, feeling crumpled and exhausted and near-to-tears. Work, post-traumatic stress, and life in general, has me feeling more anxious and more depressed than I have possibly ever felt in my life. Mostly, it’s the whole post-trauma stuff, which seems to permeate everything else. Because I am an optimist, a [...]

Another Morning Poem

Letting Go I open my hand and the hundred small birds of my heart flutter out, wings rumpled from the tight fist I’ve carried them in. They fall to the ground before flying up, knowing something of soil and grief. I can’t shake this feeling now. Nights up, hearing the house move, the small birds [...]