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Update on Pair Project
Last April when my friend Donna Hopkins and I decided to try a poetry/photography project, I was excited. But I didn’t know we would still be working on it these months later. Yet, I’ve found this project has given me focus. I’ve also changed the way I see the world, much like when children view…
A Headache By Any Other Name
I used to take two Excedrin every morning. For years. When I’d visit my primary care and mention it, she’d ask all the right questions, but nothing seemed to help. I finally got an MRI. Two actually. I tried Craniosacral therapy, nasal sprays for slight allergy, and deep breathing. When I started getting secondary headaches…
What We Know
My dad’s flannel shirt hangs in the shedthese ten years later. A musty smellof turpentine and wood oilhas settled in the work space. Mom’s handwritten cookbooks clutter the cabinet, stickywith her fingerprints, flour still seepingfrom the pages years after her death. Yet, here in this house, it’s the unfinished, unsaid words I yearn for in…
Synchronicity
I’ve been playing around with poetry again. Now that I have given my press and type away, I feel the call to be creative in other ways. For years I participated in a writing group, which was, in my mind, a group that focused on “writing to heal.” That’s probably because I had lots of…