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Personal Observations

So, as a writer and knit designer, I keep certain social media accounts public. I use these accounts for updating readers, posting about projects, doing…

Aug 22

On the occasion of family turmoil, I've done a lot of thinking about anger. There seems to be a lot of it around me, although none of it is actually…

Jun 23, 2021

Hello, old friend. No, really. It's been a really, really long time since I've written anything substantive here. So long, in fact, that even doing a…

Apr 10, 2020

When I think about this calendar year objectively, it's hard to justify calling it the happiest year of my life, but it is. As it stands, it's been 7…

Jun 24, 2019

Peonies grow in The place inside my heart that Your love inhabits I originally wrote this haiku about a beautiful friend of mine last year, back when I…

Sep 24, 2018

It's been a long time since I have given this blog a real update, mostly because I've been firing on all cylinders over the last 5 months or so, first…

Sep 10, 2018

I have been blazing through the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King these last couple of weeks. I took a long break after reading The…

Oct 1, 2017

Last night, after a couple of lengthy and very cathartic conversations with two incredibly different and yet equally strong and compelling women, I…

Sep 14, 2017

Someone asked me, “Who hurt you?” I replied, “My own expectations.” I can’t find an attribution for this quote, so if anyone knows where it originated…

Sep 4, 2017

The last couple of years have been a really long journey for me in shedding the baggage picked up from various parts of my life. This year in…

Aug 29, 2017

My words flow freely Through time and space and sadness Like sand through fingers I don't exactly remember when I wrote this haiku. I do know that it's…

Aug 19, 2017

Well, here we are. This is my first non-Close Reading blog post (not counting quotes and albums) in a really long time. Life has been a bit of a winding…

Jun 4, 2017

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