Another new collection!? / Why Not Always

Daily writing promptWhat have you been working on?View all responses I am thrilled to announce my second new collection of poems this year! Honey Eaters is special because, unlike most of my output so far, it is full of positive, upbeat, fun pieces about love, passion, and loyalty to my special someone, my husband. Despite…

Today is His Deathday

Daddy's been dead for 20 years. Sometimes I feel I'm still stuck at the age he left me. Eleven years old right after my first period. It's interesting he chose to take his own life right when I entered puberty. Maybe it's coincidence. But from my perspective, he didn't want to meet teen me. Not…

Forever is a long time…

Do you want to live forever? Living forever has its perks. You have plenty of time when you have all time. Time to learn every musical instrument. Time to read every book. Time to write every book. Time to hear every song, see every animal, travel to every country, taste every food. But living forever…

National Poetry (Writing) Month

I have participated in this for the past three years (and also during November in place of National Novel Writing Month), but I usually don't post as I go. The poems I compose are never ready in a single day to be shared. This year is a bit different. In past years, I have gone…

New website!

I've decided to branch out a little bit to widen my reach. From now on I will be cross-posting my poems between this site and Allpoetry.com. I already love it there - the site is beautiful, and the post editor gives recommendations for writings: things like if you are using "weak" words, how similar your…

Tomorrow!

The Soul Without a Summer is going live tomorrow on Amazon! I have completed a few last minute edits over the past week, including removing the last section I had entitled Dystopia. The poems in that section were specifically about climate change, and they always felt a bit incongruous when taking in the theme of…

Announcement!

UPDATE: Official release will be February 23, 2023. A book is coming...! In between not finding a good cover, changing the name, adding and removing poems, and working on other collections simultaneously, Dystopia Down got WAY pushed back. Obviously, since 2021 came and went with no book in sight. The new tentative release date is…

A Bit of an Update

It's misleading of me to post a link to this website everywhere on social media as the place to find me online, and then not post anything here for months. I feel disingenuous being so obsessed with Twitter and the childfree "movement" (I hate calling it that, when I decided all on my own I…