Cuts and Scrapes, Bruises and Tragedies

[Note: Right after I wrote the first draft of this, some friends had the tragedy of losing their daughter. Suddenly, everything I’d written seemed so dumb, and so this has been revised to honor my friends in their grief] What a busy summer! I don’t know if it is Mercury retrograde or just decompression from such […]

Signs ‘O the (Night) Times

Sometimes life just keeps sending us signs. I wish on occasion that it would be specific directions(!), but signs are good. Yes, very good. This year I reconnected with two former, extremely talented, graduate writing students of mine, C & T,  who, with all of us out of the university setting, have become friends and […]