Creativity That Fits in a Backpack

 Great news! ‘Dyad’ has been reviewed over at ‘The Reading Bud’!  Thank you to everyone who has purchased ‘Inteneration‘! Don’t forget to leave a review on Amazon.   Lately I have been learning again about my creative soul. It is pretty widely known that most creative people have multiple outlets. This is not a surprise…

Tennessee

(From my first hiking trip of 2015 – here in Tennessee) I have got to say that I have truly come to value community a lot more in the last year of my life. I am an introvert. And when I say ‘introvert’, I don’t mean I’m shy; I just feel completely drained after being…

Pieces

(South Congress in Austin, Texas) S and I left Texas on Saturday morning and headed back to Tennessee. Though it felt like forever since we had been home, I felt sad as we drove through the Texas towns I am so familiar with. Looking out the window, I realized I have felt this same sadness…

Taking Time

Lately, S and I have attended a couple of weddings. On one such wedding weekend, S told me to close my eyes and he led me out to our yard where this was set up: I was completely surprised! I asked him what the occasion was. He told me we had been around a lot…

Leaving People Better

This weekend made three weekends in a row that S and I went on a spontaneous road trip. Last weekend we said goodbye to S’s sick uncle. Yesterday, we buried him.    (Tobacco farm in Tennessee, with tobacco hanging in racks on the right) Funerals are a natural cause for reflection. As I sat with…