Twas the nights of December 2024
The Christmas lights twinkle
Stockings hung from the door

My kids all grown
I sit on my couch
Advent candy sticking out of its pouch

Contemplating life choices
Then what is to come
My dreams I realize can come true along

For in secret I wrote
Many years and mostly at night
It was frowned upon in the choice of…read more

Dear Me 2.0

Can you believe how 2024 went for you? Looking back right now as I write, reflecting on the past twelve months and how it looks like nothing you would have imagined it to be. You have no job. You are car-less. You can’t pay all your bills. You have learned not to beg, borrow and steal, anymore. You have admitted to the world t…read more

This is my third attempt to write you today
My words just kept slipping away
Or being deleted

This letter
Long overdue
A lifetime of words
Never knowing the paper
Ink gone
Words erased

Never to have been heard
Whispered
Written
Or taken place

So forgive me now
As I write in haste
My time shortening
On this place

Fear
Guilt
Shame…read more