Below, you'll find a list of the personal poems & free-verse, autobiographical stories I've written over the last handful of years -- I'll share them in the order in which they were written:

Curtain Call (Letter to a Lost Soul)

Crevasse

Abandoned Spaces

The Walking Wounded

Castles in the Sand

In Pursuit of Happiness

Sometimes the ( Read more... )

Hello, all! Some of you long-time friends of mine might remember how I used to do "Year in Review" posts every January, and how in 2009/2010 I actually did an overly ambitious Decade in Review (for those who are curious, here's Part One and Part Two from that), which involved gathering together excerpts from all my most notable journal entries ( Read more... )

Despite the lack of comments (thus far) on my last piece, and the resulting insecurity & ridiculous angst I'm trying in vain to ignore (three steps forward, two steps back), I continued my writing fest today with another session of poetic venting (this time about the dark side of my relationship with my mentally ill mother). It's painful to dredge ( Read more... )

I mentioned in my last entry that Jen had suggested I try writing more personal poetry to help me get through this depressive slump, and I did that today (my sister and I had to skip the movie after all, since the kids wanted to come home from their dad's house early. Can't say I blame them). I didn't sit & edit it a thousand times the way I ( Read more... )