Feeling the earth spin

I used to be able to lie down on the grass and relax into the very center of my solar plexus and feel the earth spin. Really. My whole body would tune to the thrumming velocity of the earth twirling on its axis very fast, gravity pressing my body into the ground. Then one […]

Changing things up a bit

A new header & with it, a commitment to share more art and stories about the small moments of daily life.
I’ve been caught up in big ideas too much of late, and haven’t given enough attention to the small things. Diggers. Bulldozers. Apples eaten round and round their equator to the core. Chimpmunks and snakes […]

Ingredients for a perfect Saturday:

Waking up to sunshine dappling our sheets and faces with zig-zag zebra stripes as it slips through the slats on our bedroom’s wooden shades, we stretch and lazily stumble out of bed. I haven’t slept in all week, and suddenly 7 a.m. seems decadent. Bean is big-eyed and delighted to find himself smack dab between […]

The shape of anxiety

There comes a point when habit pulls me here, to this place where I tell myself stories about the things I cannot do. Invariably after a week of rising early, making coffee, and touching my fingers to the keys, following words about where they will travel at dawn, my mind becomes like a child terrified […]