Poetry

  • Book Signing Coming up!

    Book Signing Coming up!

    Yay and yikes I loved writing my book. It was emotional but rewarding. Finding a publishing home for it went better than I had anticipated. The editing and launching phases were uneventful on the whole. Promoting has been a whole other hurdle. I’m not upset about it and I am not complaining. I just never

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  • Publishing soon!!!

    It’s been a crazy road but I was definitely blessed in many ways along it. It was the waiting that was the worst. I don’t know how some people stay on this road so long with the long times between query and response, offer to publish and preorder. Now that I’m in the preorder stage,

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  • An affect of sustained eye contact

    That one time that sustained eye contact kept me from quitting, even though I really wanted to.

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  • Just a stepping stone

    Just a stepping stone

    One of the early lessons was that each thing is a step to the next thing, just a step. None of it can be done all at once. Step carefully, but know that this step is not everything that this is. The realization came in boot camp. It was just 8 weeks, fun in some

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  • Hurry up and wait

    Hurry up and wait

    There are some things that we learn when we are young and new to a place that is very important in the beginning but progressively less so. Things that don’t make sense when they happen to you, but make all the sense when they happen for you. Hurry up and wait. Annoying as it can

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  • Witnessing something majestic

    Reflecting on Mary Oliver, Dog Songs, and dog sports.

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