One Moment
After weeks in scorching heat, where the air actually sizzles and the sauna seeps into my bones, the clouds finally open and soak the soil. In this one moment, a tiny green leaf curls out of the damp Texas clay,…
You Can’t. Until You Do.
My eagle can fly. Oh, can she soar. You should see it. It’s a feat and will leave you speechless. She smiles, and she means it. She even smiles on the inside. But there’s something there. Something she can’t quite…
Robot Therapist
Fourteen days into my vacation, the last day, begins with my feet propped on the thick brick wall enclosing Grami’s front porch, a place full of childhood memories. Over a hundred years ago, Great-Grampa set these red bricks by hand.…
A Cold Blast I Hear
It starts out benign. Just a slight discomfort. I can almost ignore it until without much fanfare or permission. It takes root and grows. It grows offshoots into every corner of my being. The tentacles are alive, burning the grief…
The Still Point
I’m asking us not to simply suffer but to feel it deeply. Is it worth it? The first two lessons are two sides of the same coin, and similar to the tortoise and the hare. To balance slow and precise…
Lonely Red Octagon
Pain is a lot of things. It’s complicated. It can help you, and it can hurt you. And at the same time. It fills my every second, but it doesn’t consume me. Well, it does sometimes, but the years have…
My Prison
A story must begin somewhere. So today in this moment, I pick a spot and step forward. One step after another. I will also take some backward steps to find juicy morsels as required. Even as I write that, I…
The Journey Begins
My blue Subaru spins in an icy, Indiana intersection. My mother and I are not breathing. Hours later, I wake in the ICU. My arm paralyzed, and Mom is just gone. Police determine I ran the stop sign, and I…
