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skvala

Photograph of storefront featuring skvala

This contribution to National Poetry Month was featured on a downtown storefront. skvala conjures a squall at sea.

trust your instincts

Daylight gleaming through frost-tipped grass

A blog post about trusting your gut; knowing that the body intuitively understands things before all the evidence becomes clear.

controlled burn

Roaring campfire

A blog post imaging Mother Earth as a menopausal woman … guess what? she’s hot and over it!

haiku wins contest

It is nearing the end of April (designated as National Poetry Month here in Canada) and I am very pleased to share that a haiku I wrote for a contest in my local library system was chosen to be the first place winner. It’s always exciting to “win” something, especially when, in this case, the […]

(ripening) before the bloom

Since I last wrote, life has been busy, off-kilter, and to be honest, I’m a hollow husk of my normal self at the moment. All of my plucky optimism and self-help mantras from the beginning of the year could not shield me from life pressures of late, and what I once turned to for escape […]

in the beginning

Photo of hand-written poem from a child

An early missive from my childhood confirms that we fundamentally don’t change much in life; we just get more wrinkly.

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