Continuing on with the poetry theme from yesterday, I have another to share with y'all. Some of you may already recognize this at least in part, because I technically started it as a private entry in May of 2012 (two months after my mom died), and I later included excerpts of it in my Year in Review. All this time it's remained a work-in-progress ( 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... )

I plan on probably posting another entry or two later (possibly including a soundtrack of songs that have to do with my mom), but for now I wanted to share something short that I wrote this week. I've been venting a bit of unfiltered angst out in private entries (I haven't decided if I want to make any of it public yet), and somewhere along the ( Read more... )

I mentioned the other day that I'd started an original piece of writing, and though I didn't know yet at that time whether I'd share it publicly, I've decided to go ahead & do so now ( Read more... )