Hard-Core Cowgirl or Stubborn Redhead?
In all fairness I did not realize I had broken my ankle on the beach. Yes, it hurt. No I could not walk on it properly. But as long as I stepped on the ball of my right foot, and walked in sand, I...
View ArticleListening to my heart.
“Writing is cutting open your chest, pulling out your own trembling heart, plopping it down in front of someone and asking if they can feel you. I keep on doing it because every now and then, they...
View ArticleA Subversive Revolution
This is my last resolve quote. I’ve sat on it for quite a long time. I looked up subversive and it doesn’t sound like a nice person at all. It sound’s rebellious. I’m not rebellious. (okay so that’s a...
View ArticleStanding Witness
Sometimes, when I’m being honest with myself, I have this secret fear that I am not enough. Did you know that? No matter how hard I strive to control or contain reality, I get afraid. Doc had to break...
View ArticleThe Cove at Rock Creek
I’m not going to lie. I’m kind of digging this slower life-style that I’ve had to become accustomed to while I get my leg fixed. No more crazy deadlines, being out half the night at the club, driving...
View ArticleYa Got Trouble – or do you? A glimpse into the wilderness
Unless we know how to be alone on purpose, not in a runaway alone, but an intentional pilgrimage, we’ll never learn how to be with people. That’s why I wrote yesterday’s post. Not everyone knows how to...
View ArticleProof that Banjo Is Cool: Neil Young
“There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.” ― Marty Rubin If I could sum up the feel that I go for when playing banjo, this picture would be it. It’s Neil Young, circa 1970′s playing...
View ArticleI Am Indeed Homeward Bound
I have a new writing coach and together we are exploring voice. If you recall, I had a coach for poetry a couple of years back and shared my assignments. I did the same thing when I was working through...
View ArticleCat Stevens, On the road to find out… For Chris.
She’s lost it. Did you hear she’s a Democrat? She left our church! I bet she left God too. Nope… I didn’t lose it. I didn’t run away from home like you think. Truth is, I ran away a lot. Just not like...
View ArticleDo You See What I See? Sometimes it really is about the shoes
Check it out peeps! No boot! I asked my friends on Facebook what they saw. Some saw the missing boot – one friend saw a tanned leg vs an untanned leg, and another friend saw two shoes on the wrong...
View ArticleListening to my heart.
“Writing is cutting open your chest, pulling out your own trembling heart, plopping it down in front of someone and asking if they can feel you. I keep on doing it because every now and then, they...
View ArticleThings That Give me courage
It is the goofiest things really that give me courage; like that time I discovered that Bob Goff (Love Does) and I were wearing the same socks at a conference and I so badly wanted a selfie of our feet...
View ArticleIf you let go of nothing else, let this be the one.
I performed in a comedy contest two years ago. One judge told me to never perform comedy again after my first night. I had two more sets to do after that. Honestly all he did was piss me off — I may or...
View ArticleBlindsided by a side of crazy.
I’m baaack! Oh sweet mercies the roads I have traveled these last two years. Ups and downs. Joys and disappointments. Life abundantly. I will say this isn’t my usual kind of post. At least not of late....
View ArticleThe Best Moments sometimes came too late.
I love my mother, heart and soul. She was an alcoholic who left recovery after ten years of sobriety to return home and do it on her own. That was the biggest mistake she ever made in my opinion.She...
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