Fairy tales teach us to kill dragons, and these days senior English teachers prompt us to consider how we can slay or conquer them. Ok, maybe not all teachers but my son’s did, and it fascinated me. I didn’t mind the essay prompts, but I realized that this idea and imagery of death and battle […]
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In Your Own Voice
What is it that you want to create? It’s your choice, your decision to make. The same way that you would bake a cake or make a mud pie. Bring things together to create something new. A step toward making the ideal real, is to form it. First, in your imagination. If it were a […]
Train Your Dragon
Fairy tales teach us to kill dragons and these days senior English teachers prompt us to consider how we can slay or conquer them. Ok, maybe not all of them, but my son’s did and it fascinated me. Not the essay prompt but the imagery and the realization that the idea of death and battle […]
Have you ever tasted death?
I don’t mean the slow daily kind of dying that you glimpse in the mirror. I mean the, ‘oh shit this might be it!’ taste of death. I have. It wasn’t at all what I expected. Instead, it was sweet and glorious when I expected it to be bitter and scary. I posted a memory […]
What are you going to do now?
Take a deep breath and join me for a stroll down memory lane. I was seventeen and a senior in high school the day I confessed to my mother (in front of a 7-11 of all places) that I was pregnant. I lowered my head and watched as my dreams crashed in slow motion into […]