My Favorite Miracle
‘A Miracle!’ / That knocks me out –from Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” Several years ago, I dreamt that something extraordinary would happen when I had blue fingernails. Haha, dreams are so weird, right? Well, if you know me (and if you’re reading this blog, you likely do know me to some degree), you probably know […]
Connections
Tom and I have a joke: “Food makes me sick.” I’m not sure how this little saying started, but we use it when we have those off-times when there is an occasional flattening of the appetite and nothing seems appealing. I’m in one of those times right now. And these are such strange times, eh? […]
Toxic Positivity?
These are challenging times. Shootings and never-ending Covid out in the world. Closer to home, we had the threat of tornadoes today, and clients have reached out over health problems, legal struggles, bad breakups, lost jobs, and a lost pet. And that’s just Wednesday! Tom and I went on a road trip yesterday to meet […]
What Demon Are You Naming?
Hello! I recently posted on Twitter the following: (When we name and speak of a thing, we raise its power–good or evil. #ChooseYourWordsCarefully #GrowTheGood #Positivity That Tweet came out of an understanding of an old Bible story I started pondering a few years back. Remember the one about Jesus casting demons out of a guy and […]
News and Updates
Well, there goes my best intentions to blog weekly again! Perhaps I should have said, “to blog weakly.” Haha. It’s a busy time for me, with several writing projects with deadlines going, many tarot gift certificates to fulfill, and preparing for taxes. I continue to have a lot of fun on Twitter and have been […]
New Moon in Aquarius (and why do we care?)
We have a New Moon in Aquarius! I’m not an expert astrologer by any stretch, but astrology does inform the tarot cards, as planetary symbols and zodiac signs are woven into mythology, numerology, alchemy, and history, all of which are incorporated in pictures on the cards of the tarot. In a nutshell: The tarot is […]
Plath Work, Web Work (Updates)
Hello! It’s been an exciting January as I have found my momentum for so many things again. I think the cold weather keeps me in at the computer and has energized me as of late. I’ve had a busy week or so expanding this website to include my poetic interpretations of Sylvia Plath’s early poems […]
History and a Case for Prescience: Introduction on Short Studies of Sylvia Plath’s 1956 Poems
[An earlier version of this essay was first published in Plath Profiles, Volume 7, 2014 with analyses of the 1956 poems by Sylvia Plath] “[Y]ou are being sounded and unpicked, and charted and reduced to your parts. However your new veiled Southpaw approach I should think is a match for their craft.” –Letter to Sylvia […]
“Spider”: Caught in Willie’s Winning Web
Ted Hughes positioned “Spider” as a 1956 poem, but the evidence suggests it may have been written in 1958. In the poem, Plath references the African folklore tale of Anansi, the trickster spider. Hughes noted in The Collected Poems that by the end of the year 1956 she had become greatly interested in African folklore, […]
“Maudlin”: The Monthly Curse
Of all the work in the 1956 section of The Collected Poems, “Maudlin” may be the one closest to Plath’s autobiography. However, this poem was probably written in 1959. After all, Plath wrote in her journals on May 25, 1959, “My Maudlin poem is a prophetic little piece. I get the pleasure of a prayer […]