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                                          Though she’s dressed for the theater, and sang to herself with pleasure ten minutes before; he goes suddenly surly, without a reason. She chides him cheerfully, gently cajoles, and then again; but he’s fractious and cross. She feels herself flare, and paints him as ass in vivid detail. So, […]

Please forgive yourself. You are a plant in need of water. Learn to celebrate your leaves, your roots, and each new growth just beginning to unfurl. Expectation drains too much, like a funnel drawing things away from the soil. Please forgive your tender self— the one who is still healing— the one who shrinks from unkind words and needs time to rebuild. Nurture the inner structure of connected meridian lines. […]

As a woman veteran who stands alongside countless other wounded warriors who have borne invisible scars inflicted while in service to country, the unenviable task of striving to make sense of the senseless, fathom the unbearable and navigate life post-military trauma is a daunting one. It calls for those of us who have been harmed by uniformed predators to sift through the not-so-subtle cues hidden in a complex myriad of toxic emotions, […]

To behold her would wash your eyes. Her child she named Bebop Blue but we all called him Bop. Spring Rain and child, they lived in a rusty old van. At school she volunteered teaching the Great Books to ragamuffins with a wild passion until the day she parked the van, middle of the highway, locked the doors blocking traffic behind mandala curtains screaming too much evil—Evil!— in life. At […]