Saturday, May 1, 2010 My life coach had encouraged me to celebrate the completion of my memoir, The Stage Is On Fire. I had been working on the manuscript for well over three years in supportive writing classes, with patient editors, in a coffee ...

Running is a gift to me. I started running at the age of 29 in preparation for turning 30, approaching the end of my doctoral journey having received negative feedback on my first round of exams. I was questioning everything. After a life of not conn...

I like their lady horse swagger,/ after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!/ But mainly, let’s be honest, I like/ that they’re ladies. As if this big/ dangerous animal is also a part of me,/ that somewhere inside the/ delicate/ skin of my body, the...

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”  ― Naomi Shihab Nye I spend my days between re-invention and poetry. At this time when we think about spring, resurrection, and resistance, considering re-invention ...