This is a crazy week for our family. We were on vacation last week, but my kids returned to California with my husband while I traveled to a conference, where I was presenting. My older son started his first job Monday (at my husband’s office) and my younger son started a new camp. I got …
Last night, the person who made me a mother (i.e. my son) graduated from 8th grade. I don’t have many new reflections to share on this moment other than this: My heart swells with happiness over how excited he is to be moving on. Transitions aren’t really his thing – so for him to be …
It takes a lot for me to buy a book of poetry, but I bet that if I buy book of poetry a year, it’s more than most people. Amazon’s top selling books of poetry include Rumi, Maya Angelou and Khalil Gibran, as well as a poet who is being featured by Urban Outfitters, which …
Thank you for sticking with me through my college poetry. I thought I’d head back to the classics for my next poem, which I pulled off the bookshelf in the hall just minutes ago. You may have read this in college; I didn’t. I’ll read it tonight (or fall asleep trying). The first stanza seemed …
This is probably my fourth blog and the first post is always the lamest. Gotta start somewhere, right?