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Oh No – Is It Really March First?!

You got me bloggin’ babes. I’m scrambled, scrambling, scramed – is that a word? I’m too busy to make hay or horsetails and I don’t know what I’m talking about. In brief – a fellow poet asked me to be her PR Flack. I said – Hey – RISK IS GOOD! So I am her [...]

Can I Risk Following the Rules?

I am taking the risk of following one rule this morning. I’m writing my blog – even though it might not be a very good one. And I guess the second risk I’m taking is simply to ask the question, “What are the rules I need to follow? And what will I gain? What will I lose?”

Risking It

When our Blog-master (or maybe that’s blog-mistress) asked us all to think more about Risk in our writing and to make a commitment to risk – I balked. That’s what I do. As a student, I was always the annoying fly-in-the-ointment who couldn’t quite pull off an assignment without twisting it out of shape. Over [...]

Forgiveness, Judgment, Reframing the Moment

My lovely Uncle David died yesterday. Too young. Too savaged by cancer. Too quickly to have any opportunity to set his business or his loves in order. Three years ago, my father was given a six-month window. Significantly more than Uncle David’s two weeks which stretched into six brutally painfully weeks. Thursday I will drive [...]

A Prayer

Some things we do so we might recall having done them The plunge from 3,000 feet in an adult diaper to say Yes I can fall and believe the wind and a sheath of plastic will spare me A pilgrimage to Mecca, a hike to glimpse the eruption’s heart Sex in a field of chamomile [...]