(This is a true story, however it is important to mention that this is something that happened years ago.) I could show you a photo of the log-shaped bruise on my upper right thigh. You’d be able to see how I stood in my underwear, in front of the cracked full-length…
One I was tired the morning of September 11, 2001. The night before my husband broke his toe so we were in the emergency room of the local hospital until 3AM. We thanked the babysitter for coming so last minute and were in bed before four. I had to be at my desk teaching by…
A MOTHERLESS DAUGHTER’S MOTHER’S DAY BLOG “Mother’s Day bothered me, if I thought about it. I used to give Mother’s Day gifts to my Nana, but after she died I started hiding them in the back of my closet. I don’t know why I didn’t just throw them away. Anyway, they stopped having us…
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk6kUm4banc&t=6s transcript below: March 22, 2019 “Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience you’d get maybe one book maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” I love this quote from the poet, Nikki Giovanni. She tells us…