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I felt in the mood for some poetry after my recent episode of dying my hair–yeah, hard to tell when that Muse will hit. Hope you enjoy: For each white hair I paid a price, Sleepless nights, babies’ cries. Dreaded news, best friend dies. Time went by. White hairs were dyed– Covering tears I left behind. Babies grow,… Read More
Anyone who knows me know this wouldn’t actually be MY blog, were not some Emily Dickinson strewn throughout it. So here’s a little something to celebrate autumn , from the incomparable Emily: “How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun!How the hemlocks are tipped in tinselBy the wizard sun!” –Emily Dickinson I just had a glorious thought–I… Read More
Hi my friends! Just dropping in to share a link for a poem I wrote over at The Revivalist, an online magazine for the Appalachian south! Hope you can check it out and enjoy: http://therevivalist.info/arborvitae-a-poem/?utm_source=The+Revivalist+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f926004242-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email. And hope you are all having a great holiday weekend. Hope to get back to blogging next week! –Heather
Today I’m harking back to my college days again, since I’m still sorting through boxes of textbooks. Just stumbled upon a poem by Robert Hayden that frequently springs to mind. It truly captures the vast divide between childish vs adult thinking. If you’re anything like I was as a teen, you think you know what kind of parent you’ll be…. Read More
On Wednesdays, I want to share some cool quotes with you (posting early this week…still waiting on my new internet service). I find loads of them in the books I read (frequently classics, but sometimes they’re not). Short and sweet…classy quotes. It’s not much…”just a mission statement.” (there’s a little Jerry McGuire quote for ya).Here’s my first Wednesday quote…let me… Read More
I am so excited to introduce my guest blogger today, I can hardly contain myself. I found De’s blog when I wrote my tritina poem for the Writer’s Digest blog. De’s poems were knock-your-socks off incredible. I’m picky about poets, having an affinity for Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and many others since college. And I’d put… Read More