This Thing Called Life
A Guilt-free Rest
I’m currently sitting on my couch, laptop open, two poems in draft, considering the way I spent my day. Church was cancelled this morning due to inclement weather, so I tuned in to a couple of services online. Then I…
Unfinished Business 2: The Things You Left in 2014
At the end of last year, there was a common theme in my social networks: leave it in 2014. It was as if everyone decided to stuff bags full of the good things and people in their lives, scribble “2015”…
Unfinished Business: Making Hard Decisions in the New Year
The world is a scary place when you don’t trust yourself. When you can rattle off a list of mistakes and bad decisions with the ease that Catholic school children recite the Holy Rosary, it is easy to question your…
Try a New Thing
I was only trying to expand his horizons. Unfortunately, he wanted no parts of the slice of heaven that I offered. So he hurt himself running away from me. It happened shortly after my sister swung by Mickey D’s to…
A Grateful Heart
My sister and I have reached an age in which we find ourselves regularly pointing out how much we sound like our mother. The realizations are funny and even scary – not because our mom is anything short of amazing,…
American Dreams and Nightmares
I. Then When my friends and I told our Belizean Creole tour guide we were from America, he said that years ago he lived in Phoenix and then Los Angeles. When asked why he left, his answer was simple: racism.…
Self-Discovery Tour: N is for Never-ending
On the eve of my 30th birthday, I knew myself better than I had at any other point in life. I was secure in who I was, digging the way I looked inside and out, and confident about the decade…
