Living in Pandemic Time

by | Apr 30, 2020 | Life, Seasons, Time, Work, Writing, writing journey

We’ve heard of kairos time and chronos time. Maybe, tongue in cheek, now we have “pandemic time”. Indeed, how do we define time during a pandemic? There is the slow, thick movement of monotonous days at home during quarantines. Simultaneously, there is the sense of...

Drawn From a Deep Well

by | Jan 7, 2020 | Essays, Writers, Writing, writing journey

I am writing about writing in my piece just published at The Perennial Gen! It was actually an essay I wrote for the Breathe Writer’s conference– it was one of two winning essays that was published in their journal, Exhale.  *** Writing often feels like I...

Treasures from the Tree Maker

by | Nov 1, 2019 | Beauty, Growth, Writing, writing journey

  Abscission (noun)* the act of cutting off; sudden termination. Botany. the normal separation of flowers, fruit, and leaves from plants. The Tree From a place deep within itself, the autumn tree bursts forth in glorious color, and shows a different face of its...

Three Poetry Contests

by | Sep 13, 2019 | Poetry, Writers, Writing, writing journey

Friends, I wanted to bring to your attention three poetry contests: Dignity not Detention – A prize of $500 and publication in Poetry International will be given for a single poem written for refugees currently being detained pending their hearings. (A similar...

Year in Review (2018)

by | Dec 28, 2018 | Writing, writing journey

  For the first time, here is a list of writing highlights for me this past year. I am not sure if this will be an annual thing, but here it is! As I quickly and briefly look back upon the year, I see a few “firsts”, which are below. Writing...