You may have been a member of my Umbrella membership-based community last year, and if you were–I hope it was a fun experience. The whole plan was kind of a "play along" while I beta tested some ideas, and it was an adventure! I learned a ton (as I hope to do with all adventures) [...]
I don't know about you but I'm not quite feeling '22... Not yet anyway. For the first time in my four-plus decades of life, I am cautiously wary of transitioning into a new year. That may not be one hundred percent accurate... I was also fairly hesitant during the last few moments of 1999 as [...]
I did some dumb stuff as a kid. Now, looking back with the wisdom of a full-grown human, I'm sure that I was looking for attention of various kinds... I was really young, perhaps six or seven, when I–in a fit of anger over being locked in my bedroom–decided to stick a metal hairpin into [...]
There is this not enough theme ribboning throughout my story. Sometimes its satin curl weaves with the abrasive too much-jagged stretch of twine. Not enough daughter, yet whose presence was too much. Not thin enough, the world seeing this body as too full. Not pretty enough... Mom enough... Good enough... Smart enough–rough fraying edges intermittently [...]
Inspired by Emily P. Freeman, I'm spending a little time with her reflection questions and considering what I learned this spring. She asks the following questions: What was your favorite photo from May? As the season unfolded it became clear that the normal spring we craved wasn't just going to happen. March faded into April [...]
Rainy Day in May... 