Looking at it now, it all seems so simple…The rest of the world was black and whiteBut we were in screaming color… – Out of the Woods, Taylor Swift We can breathe again, out here in the open. Drink in the lemonade sunlight because each one of us has faced so, so much dark. RightContinueContinue reading “Outside the Box: Where we’ve been, where we are”
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Minimalism. Simplicity. Calm.
I come from a family of clutterbugs. Or maybe you could call us memory hoarders. We save everything. We love antiques and scrapbooks. My dad’s parents got married at the start of the Great Depression. My two elderly aunts, both born in the 1930s, remember World War II rations and home gardening. Frugality was necessaryContinueContinue reading “Minimalism. Simplicity. Calm.”
Happy Things
If you’ve met me in person or talked to me on the phone or by Skype, you know I’m usually an optimistic, bubbly person. My best friend in college called me the toesocks fairy. My Meyers-Briggs type is ENFP and I’m a yellow-blue according to the color code, so ALL THE FEELINGS ALL THE TIME.ContinueContinue reading “Happy Things”
Poem: September Again
I read two slam poems this month at the LogOn Cafe’s poetry slam. One of my goals for 2016 is to write a new spoken word poem every month. Here’s January’s poem. It’s September again,and I feel autumn rushing through my fingertipslike frozen yellow leaved sunshineand I remember when I drank your words like water.ThatContinueContinue reading “Poem: September Again”
The darkest days of the year and the dark night of the soul
You know people who talk about the dark night of the soul? Yeah, that. It doesn’t just exist in fiction. I try not to complain. I’m naturally an optimist. But 2015 has been an incredibly difficult year. I’ve lost several people, not to death, but to change. I don’t know which is harder, honestly. IContinueContinue reading “The darkest days of the year and the dark night of the soul”
Eleanor Skelton 