I just finished watching “The Theory of Everything” – based on Stephan Hawking’s book. It’s worth a watch – truly inspiring. I purchased his book a while ago, used. I wanted to share this passage I found inside: Pretty cool – hey. While reading, I have been taking careful consideration on the time and physical […]
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Everything
I keep hearing my doctor’s voice – He puts his hands on my shoulders, stands right in front of me – he was 6 ft tall and I was me – and he says: “You can do this. You have to work very hard, but you can do this.” He would smile, take his hands […]
Josh Llewellyn-Jones
I just finished watching “Hidden Figures” for the second time. That is such an inspiring movie. What a great story. What fabulous women. Speaking of inspiration – it’s almost been two years since Josh Llewellyn-Jones did his 24 hours for CF. If you do not follow him – you should. And he has CF – […]
Love Is
Something that I learned this during this last semester – which reminds me I need to check and see if I got my grade again; I really enjoy reading other people’s poetry. I loved and was in awe of a couple classmates use of words, and the fact that they knew these words. I then […]
Light shining through
First, before I start this – I think I just told my mother off and it felt so fucking good I can’t even tell you. She left me a shit-storm of a voicemail, a vortex of insecurities that I have been listening to for all my life. In a very brief response, it went something […]
Phenomenal Woman
Yesterday, I double-checked what all I needed to submit for my portfolio, and of course, I missed or overlooked that I needed to submit ten poems that I liked and the reasons why I liked them. Oh lord. This was separate from the ten poems that I wrote. I think reading “ten” blurred in my […]
SCBWI
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators – I went to the New England conference this last weekend. This was pushing it far as it is the end of the semester – but I did it. I had to pack a lot of food, extra food. I had some funny follies I may write […]
Looming Mist
My poetry class is over! Well almost. I still have to hand in my final portfolio by next week. I am sitting here laughing because the last line of this poem makes me. I have enjoyed this class immensely. At the same time, I am super happy to have it done. It was intense. My […]