Category: Featured
Hit Like a Girl
I am proud to be a woman. I’m proud to “fuss” over small details, like my eyebrows, or the way you drive. I’m proud of the woman who came before me. The one who refused to lie down, refused to stay down despite how often she was pushed there. What Read more
Podium Hopes
Para mutual relay race Often ends on twisted ankles Mississippi River finish Photo op, fine way to end this – Sore loser, I am, always Have been, since about the age of ten ~ Used a donkey running partner – Used a tactic seen by many Of sprinting naked To Read more
When I Was Young
If I could tell that young girl anything, I would tell her that no matter what horrific obstacles life throws at her, no matter the lowest depths of pain and insanity, or the highest highs, she’d manage somehow. No matter if she was rich or poor, single, famous, divorced, abused, Read more
Writer Secrets
They strobe like the lights of fireflies in the summer infused bits of lived magic exist between the words and lives of persons non-living. I spoon them out, seek them, savory and tangible secrets— their therapeutic release beneath the guise of a poem or story— to be hidden in plain Read more
