Yesterday, you reached out for my hand,Without even looking,Sure that I would be there. And for the first time,Instead of stepping forward to reassure you,I took the tiniest of steps away. Your hand reached out,But beneath it was air,I waited, and watched, just out of reach. You stood on the end of the playground slide,Where …
Monthly Archives: September 2020
Looking backwards
Today, I was going back through old emails to check for any stray receipts as part of the process of preparing my US taxes. My inbox currently has 5,568 unread emails in it. When I worked in office jobs I was able to maintain inbox zero. But in my personal life, my inbox doubles as …
Visibly pregnant
I belong to a Facebook group of ‘Mothers Who Make’, and someone shared this inspiring post from Paloma Faith: π¨π ππ ππππ πΎππππΎππΎ ππ πΎπΊππππΎ π¨ πΊππππππΌπΎ π¨ πΊπ πππΎπππΊππ. π¨ πΊπ πππππ ππ π»πΎ ππΎπ πΎπΊππππ ππΎπ πππππΌ πΊπ ππππ ππππΎ πΊππ½ ππΊπππΎπ½ ππ πΏπΎπΎπ πΏππΎπΎ ππ ππ π»ππ½π πΊπ ππ πΌππΊπππΎπ π»πΎπΏπππΎ πΊπ π πππ πΎππΎπ! …
The best advice I ever got on parenting
Back when my sister was expecting her baby, one of the things they did was get everyone to share their best piece of parenting advice. I still find myself thinking about this on a regular basis. The best advice I got came from a taxi driver. He had a young child who he loved deeply, …
How do we heal?
How do we heal? When we are torn,We know that invisible forcesWork to put us back together again. We look at the changesAnd think it is just the magic of time,When really, a million microscopic momentsAnd tiny actions have come togetherTo create a web that holds our bodies together,To repair what has been broken,To restore …
This is how to pick the perfect exercise for you
This post was inspired by my mom. She was talking about what it’s like being a woman in her 60’s, trying to stay healthy and active. And she gave me the greatest tip for choosing a form of exercise. Instead of looking at the young people who are involved in whatever you are thinking about, …
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Blackberries
I was too prickly, too wild,Too thorny, too demanding,Too aggressive,Too unruly,Too chaotic,Too big. Maybe if I hadn’t grown quite so high,Or foolishly trailed my branches down to the ground,Maybe if I had stayed exactly at eye-levelIn easy reach… Maybe if I had smoothed away my sharpness,Pared back my leaves,Plumped my juicy fruit,Or curled appealingly into …
Feeling lost after treatment
Right now, it seems like so many people in my online cancer groups are struggling. Some of them are in the midst of treatment, some of them are years out, but there seems to be a general trend towards people feeling low, fatigued, depressed, or lost. I think there are bigger trends contributing to what …
Odds and ends 5
America’s Most Widely Misread Literary Work by The Atlantic ‘Robert Frostβs poem βThe Road Not Takenβ is often interpreted as an anthem of individualism and nonconformity, seemingly encouraging readers to take the road less traveled… But as Frost liked to warn his listeners, βYou have to be careful of that one; itβs a tricky poemβvery tricky.β …
Lest we forget that we are animals
Lest we forget that we are animalsI run my fingers through your silky furI feel the heat from where our bodies touchAnd nestle close to hear your rumbling purr Our lives are bound by rules and promisesBy forms and customs, cunningly designedWe follow patterns hidden to our eyesAnd seek our own path, carefully divined But …