We lived bold as the young and invincible do. Thinking nothing of driving home to Texas late at night, we snaked dark and lonely as the scant houses blurred past. Winding through the ebony [Read more...]
I've never been buzzed by a hummingbird before. Or two or five. As if in a dare, they darted fearless, while I wrote at my canyon top perch in the midst of their breakfast. Cocooned by a radiant [Read more...]
You entered this beautiful, broken world as we all did, Red, Wrinkled Helpless. Did you wail unsure as your tiny body birthed into the cool air? Were you fussy and colicky in that hay filled [Read more...]
Some days are for forgetting. Some are for living to the hilt. Some are for searing your memory with remarkable souls that make you want to be better. Claudine was one I was honored to [Read more...]
I can feel it in my right shoulder Never the left. That tightness, that tension, The slow burn. Slowly, slowly building day after day, a fierce grip of anxiety. It always [Read more...]