It’s IndieInk Writing Challenge time again. This one comes from Zoey Jane, who issued a doozy of a prompt, which was: You know that an asteroid – The asteroid – is coming for Earth. It’s been verified by all of the scientists and reported, first on Twitter, and then on reputable news networks (none of [...]

I tell myself you bleed like I do. I say that a lot. Over and over like a totem; a psalm to ground me. Same color blood. Same color blood. Same color blood. You hurt. You defend. You love. You need. You live in the same world. Same world. Same color blood. Same. Same. Same. [...]

The below is born from an IndieInk Writing Challenge issued to me by my challenger, Becky. Every week, as part of IndieInk’s “game,” participants will be randomly challenged by their peers with a writing prompt. Becky’s prompt for me this week was: “They say there’s a first time for everything. Write about something that offers [...]

{{Last re-repost. My brain will be back from the mountains tomorrow. And I think about the below all the time.}}   How to write. I ask myself this question almost every day. Because I overthink, and because I second guess, and because I doubt, and because I can be better, but I don’t know how. [...]

I wrote this in honor of my most favorite beach town in San Diego. I miss it.

{{Yes. Another re-post. My brain is glued shut from too many biscuits and gravy. I originally wrote the below more than three years ago. And it’s still true.   God help us all.}}   Please note that the below represents my perspective and is not reflective of any well-adjusted, unmedicated bloggers out there.   I [...]

{{Re-posting. Still in the mountains amidst crazy snow flurries and loving it hardcore.}}   I went to college in a smallish midwestern city with a gorgeous lakefront, gritty urban streets, and crazy lunatics roaming the alleys (campus was two blocks from the Rescue Mission, a psychiatric hospital, and the Pabst Mansion open to the drunk [...]

{{Way back when and long ago, my friend MommyPie asked me to write about the below. I thought I’d re-post it now because I’m in the mountains waiting for it to snow, eating too many Doritos, and realizing I’m quite unable to formulate a brand-new post. So…}}   …here are the five classes I wish [...]

I’m sure you’re all familiar with The Secret, right? Manifest your destiny? Make your dreams real? Wish for a cup of coffee and it appears? That kind of thing. And you’re probably all over the Vision Boards, too. You know, cut out magazine pictures of how you want your life to look, paste them on [...]

Another previously posted piece on how my security alarm failed one night. Over at @TheSmartly So Cal.

Dearest The Rock:   I know you’ll read this, so I thought I’d put it here. As you know, I’ll be gone this evening, and if I don’t write these things down when the mood hits me, I may never get to it. And things need to be said.   But first of all: you’re [...]

  The moments go by. I marvel at friends’ hair loss, my dad’s newfound tendency to go to bed before 9, my cracking knee. I view this time through sepia, colors gray and darken, edges disappear, focus fuzzes. We were all just kids waiting for Santa Claus, and not that long ago. Time hastens us, [...]

I know I wrote this a few years ago, but look, even I know when it’s time to say thank you to those who understand what you are trying to do with your website; who agree to advertise even though your content may be affectionately referred to as “cheeky” or “hmmmmm…”   It was always [...]

{{My PROMPTuesday submission…}}   I am angel heart and devil fire Seeing eyes and burning soul   I am trapeze and open hands   I am mother and motherless   I am gravel and soil Pasture and sheep   I am traveler I am home  

Turbo hilarity here!

This PROMPT is based on one I wrote in 2008. As I said then: “I think this started as a meme. I’ve read several outstanding versions of it over the last year, and I thought I’d like to offer it as a PROMPTuesday, so…   I am.   This week, tell us who you are, [...]

(This is a re-post from 2009 because my head hurts and I like music.   Really, those are the two reasons.)   I’ve oft professed my undying love for music. As an angsty adolescent, I laid in bed with earphones every night, my yellow Sony walkman clasped in my hands, listening to the Little River [...]

Once more…I have a previously posted piece up there on The Smartly SoCal. Maybe you’ll like it, maybe you won’t. But we can still be friends, right?  

It was Spring 2006 and I was eight months pregnant with Booger. I’d signed up for a weekly discussion group through my church and showed up for the first meeting a little nervous and a lot unsure. I knew I wanted to connect with people in my community, and church seemed a good a place [...]