Category: 2023

Begin Again

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Staying in the same place would have been easier.Less risk. Less fear. Less unknown. Less expectations.Staying in the same place would have been debilitating.More of the same. More complacency. More disquiet in the soul.Staying in the same place would have been expected.Not rocking the boat. Not changing the path. Not upending the journey.Staying in the…

Book Review: Spellbinders

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“Ben may only be pretending to be the ‘Chosen One’—but I’ve definitely chosen this one as my favorite new fantasy series.”—Max Brallier, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Last Kids on Earth series How far would you go to play the hero? One lonely seventh grader gets way more than he bargained for when he…

Book Review: We’ll Never Tell

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Thank you to TBR & Beyond Tours for the Review Copy and Interview. Get the full tour here! About the Book An ambitious and juicy whodunit doused in Hollywood lore, perfect for readers of sexy summer thrillers like The Twin by Natasha Preston and The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson. No one at…

Crossroads

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She came upon the crossroads almost accidentally
She hadn’t looked that far ahead, she’d simply tried to breathe
The path was worn, she noticed, eyes always cast straight down
She thought she saw her own footprints there, etched into that ground

Supposed to Be

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April 16: Supposed to Be She was everything she was supposed to beQuiet and ordinary, go with the flow, don’t rock the boatShe was everything she was supposed to beIt was her chance and so hid herself behind a cheerful guiseShe was everything she was supposed to beThe truth of who she was pushed down…

Weighed and Measured

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The balances are always tipping slightly
From one side to the other and back again
As each moment, each experience, each part of your journey
Is taken into account, reviewed, and stacked
Your life story reduced to blocks on a scale, determining, what?

The Saturday World

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There is a day between that dark Friday and that Sunday Morning
That is not spoken of, not discussed, not shared, not celebrated
No one mourns that lost Saturday and no one celebrates its coming
The day between, when the world held it’s collective breath

But Then There is Hope

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April 6: But Then There is Hope It would be so easy to give upSo easy to decide that today, this moment, was all that would ever beIt would be so easy to give inSo easy to look at the hurts that fight to the surface and let them winIt would be so easy to…

Knotted and Frayed

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Determined to unknot the path though our fingers bend and our caloused hands bleed
From the effort to unwind ourselves from the knotted, rugged landscape of our hearts.
Over under around and through we follow the mountains and valley and never quite see
Beyond the next bend the frayed edges become worn with time and tears.