About six months after I finished all of my cancer treatments, I was finally able to write a poem about it. I was at a writers’ conference, and I was given a prompt to write a poem that had a car in it. This is what came out. Pucker (originally published in F.I.N.D.I.N.G.S.) The gods line […]
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Today, I offer a piece of flash creative nonfiction. I Will Not Let You Go Unless You Bless Me I’ve been managing, just. With planning and budgeting of time and energy, I have made it through the last five days of doing the work of three people. I send a text to Diane to tell
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As a woman in the helping professions, I have struggled with finding my voice. I have struggled especially with expressing anger in a graceful, professional way. These are the things that have helped me. Mindfulness meditation. Daily meditation helps me regain my equanimity quickly. It doesn’t mean I don’t get angry, but when I do,
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Challenge Accepted! Beginning Wednesday, April 1, 2020, I will be posting on the theme “Stepping Stones on the Path of Transformation.” Since this challenge coincides with National Poetry Month, each post will be related to poetry in some way, whether it’s a poem, a prose poem, a lyric essay, or some hybrid of all of
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