I’ve been thinking about wildflowers a lot lately. As I’ve been going on long walks around Bloomington, I’ve found more and more places where wildflowers are blooming. They change a little throughout the seasons, but they are still there. And, as I walk, I find them in the ugliest of places – forgotten corners of…
Month: September 2023
The Letter Exchange
There was a long, persistent lonely feelingIt wasn’t something she truly understoodBut it wasn’t exactly foreign, eitherIt was the culmination of a million momentsWhere it didn’t matter if she was around peopleOr if she knew she had something to anticipateShe still felt truly lonely. There was a soft, gentle, lovely feelingGrowing with each passing dayA…
Bottled Up
She wasn’t the kind of person who broke easilyShe wasn’t the kind of person who showed her heartShe’d been too open and had learned to wall off the world She kept herself safe by keeping herself just outsideOutside the people who could hurt herand outside the risks that might grow her – or destroy her…
Book Review: Wrapped with a Beau
Thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours for this review copy! In its heyday, Piney Peaks and its beloved Christmas House were made famous by Sleighbells, a romantic holiday movie. 50 years later, the small town is ready for a new love story. As a successful film liaison, Elisha Rowe has her heart set on one…
Book Review: The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours for the review copy. Check out the full tour here! About the Book A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da…
Broken & Whole
a study in contradictions Every piece shattered when she fellThe floor covered in bits of dreamsHopes and wonders and should have beensNo longer able to be seen for what they were Dust choked the light that tried to stream inCovered the surfaces that once held happy memoriesHiding the cracks in surfaces polished to a fake…