Turning the Page
Flickr Photo Download: leaf + snow It’s been almost a year now.The spring has turned ’round to winter.I walked the beach last weekend,That strip of sand where the wild ponies love to run.I remembered our winter walks on the beach,The way you would tip your chin up and stride into the wind,Strong and bold, while I shivered and hunched down in my jacket.A cold wind slapped at me, but this time I lifted my head,Unzipped my jacket, ran into its sting, savored the life you gave me. It’s been almost a year now.It was snowing the night you left.I stood outside watching it swirl in silent spiralsand thought of a…
When winning a “Madness” Competition is a good thing
My posting here on the blog trickled to almost nothing when my Dad died a few months ago. I had no energy for anything and started to wonder if I’d ever find my words again. When words did start to trickle from my pen, they were so dark that I joked to my sister that if the family saw what I was writing they’d have me committed. I wrote my way out of the blues, eventually, and the project that played a big part in helping me get there won the poetry portion of eMuse’s Summer Madness Contest: We received a number of fantastic submissions. As I read through them…