This is, I think, the seventh year of the Poetry Slam in honor of Saint Bridgid's Day ... or Brighid's Day, Imbolc. It's, I think, my third year of participating, and probably only the second poem I've written in that time.

Found poem from memery: Unexpected losses

In a vest-pocket kitchen

yesterday morning pouring tea

your silver-haired haunting ( Read more... )

Hello, Beloveds ( Read more... )

 Keeping myself current, somehow -- oh, and keeping you current, too ( Read more... )

Relationships

Fifteen years ago I finally learned not to spew my anger all over other people. Stopped shouting, stopped throwing tantrums, came awfully near to stopping irritability (at least, snarkiness). This year I've been learning that I still need to have a way to express anger, hurt feelings, a way to indicate the strength of my desire ( Read more... )

Feel free to copy the following to your blog/facebook/website and spread
the word. Let poetry bless the blogosphere once again!

WHAT: A Bloggers (Silent) Poetry Reading

WHEN: Anytime February 2, 2010

WHERE: Your blog

WHY: To celebrate the Feast of Brigid, aka Groundhog Day

HOW: Select a poem you like - by a favorite poet or one of your own - to
post ( Read more... )

Way past time for an update. Sometimes I think this screen before me is an amazing time-suck; sometimes it's an amazing assistant.

Relationships

Talking better. Talking more. Lots better boundaries. More of the elephants in the room are getting talked about, acknowledged, even taken out for some exercise. And their detritus is getting shoveled away ( Read more... )

Struggled most of the past two weeks with the memoir.

Eventually turned out something that, while not quite as polished as I would like, was pretty useful, coherent, honest, reflective. You'd have thought I'd be pleased, especially when the comments suggest that my fellow students -- and even my teacher -- think it's a good job. I think so too, ( Read more... )

I'm back to work on my memoirs ( Read more... )

It's official -- or actually, it became official on July 31, 2009: Cherry Hill Seminary now offers a 72-credit Master of Divinity, a 60-credit Master of Pagan Pastoral Care and Counseling, a 48-credit Master of Pagan Ministry and a 48-credit Master of Pagan Studies ( Read more... )

I'm still finding it difficult to see the 'journey' of the memoir I'm trying to write ... except in the most condensed terms. Expressed in one sentence, I'm probably writing the story of how one Child of an Alcoholic married to a Teetotaler makes the journey from teetotaling through intermittent drinking to social drinking ... to over-indulgence, ( Read more... )