Level-Up! Essence of Green :: May 2019
“There is a wildness in the air, a spice that belongs to more than lilacs or the sweet woodruff blooming beneath the trees. Ferns glisten with morning dew, and somewhere, […]
Category Archives: Day-to-Day
Human first, writer second: Posts about health, dayjob, family — off-screen life events.
Lessons in Wanting Too Much (& Doing Just Enough)
It’s the end of May, and this year, you may have noticed, my weekly post schedule has pretty much fallen to a monthly post, after 2 years of consistent, weekly […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: Mar-Apr 2019
“Milk-white clouds pillow in an agate sky. Buds swell tightly against slender branches, and soft, mousy catkin beg to be patter by children on their way to school. Fresh rain […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: Jan-Feb 2019
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the sodden grass, the first slender tips […]
Word of the Year – 2019
Intention I debated different words for 2019, all a little less passive than my past ones. Since 2011, my previous words have included ‘strength‘, ‘connect‘, ‘improve‘, ‘settle‘, ‘kindness‘, ‘create‘, and […]
2019 :: Closing on 2018 and Mapping Out This Year
“Will somebody, let me see the light within the dark trees shadowing. What’s happenin? Looking through the glass find the wrong within the past knowing. We are youth. Cut until […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: December 2018
“The air is cold, metallic, sharp to breathe; scarves of woodsmoke drift in the sky over rooftops outlined with twinkling lights, and porch lamps gleam from early in the afternoon […]
Reflections of my Word of the Year: Trust
In 2017, I set a ‘theme’ of ‘create.’ For 2018, I choose ‘trust.’ For those of you who aren’t aware of the back-story of my process, 2017 was an exhausting […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: November 2018
“We begin in the heart of the darkness. Winter is full upon the Earth; snow veils the landscape, thin trees are brittle with ice, and stars shatter the black mirror […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: October 2018
“A white lace of frost webs the sidewalk; a kaleidoscope of leaves. Hillsides are ablaze with flame-colored trees, fields lie fallow and dark, and cornstalks dry to the color of […]
