Little Human Moments
Writing is a craft, like most others. You sit down with raw material and you smear it around a little. Grammar is glue. Sometimes you get it on yourself. The work is always good enough. Sometimes it releases a tear, or a sigh, or adds a spring to your step for a day. Once in … Continue reading No Apologies
It’s an easy concept. Reclaim what was taken from you, what you accidentally gave away, or what you lost. It’s not easy in action, though, and we all get stumped at How? We roll on anyway, carrying it in the places where our wholeness used to be. How? fills our pockets and shines through those holes … Continue reading Reclaim
How long have we been saying, “Keep your head up,” or “Keep your chin up?” But that’s about pride, and dauntlessness, and elevating the self above others. It’s about staying out of reach, where nobody can quite catch you in the sticky web of social distress, where nobody quite knows his or her place, and … Continue reading We’ve Got It All Wrong
I gave birth to a star, and then to a supernova; I run back and forth between the two until my tongue hangs as long as the dog’s on his too-infrequent walks. No one told me it could be like this. It’s not the supernova’s fault. That small being came big, more than ten pounds … Continue reading Soul Searching with Pockets Full of Light
I’ll be honest. Sometimes I sit down and catalogue what I’m doing with my time since I closed my psychiatric practice, and I’ve never felt more certain that I am walking slowly in circles. Many circles. Today I am writing it all down and sharing it, because when people ask me what I am doing … Continue reading Steadily Whiling
What is the point? That question is one step toward the spins. Need there be a point? And if so, what’s the rubric? Who is the expert that deems there is, or needs to be, a point? We are the makers of our own, arbitrary mazes. Then we set out to run them as fast as … Continue reading Kryptonite
Last year I did the 100 Day Project. It’s a free global art project using Instagram to share 100 days of whatever one chooses to work on for 100 days. I did two projects, one with each of my two children. Neither project was militant. If we didn’t do it, we didn’t do it. One of … Continue reading #The100DayProject
