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Hope Gives a Eulogy Is Turning into Music – coming soon!
My sister, Cheyenne Olson, owns a piano studio in Utah and is finishing up her first volume of Piano Poetry where she gives musical voice to 15 of my poems from Hope Gives a Eulogy. Part of Cheyenne’s piano project meant I got to write about and share some more of my heart and what… Continue reading
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Spring Comes to Green Fables
Here’s a little tour of life lately.♥️ My mother-in-law painted our house! Look at this magic! No wonder I will be forever writing stories and poetry about this “little” life of mine. My daughter turned 4 in early spring! She wanted a butterfly unicorn cake. When you’re four anything is possible and all possibilities make… Continue reading
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Let’s Chat – Quitting Instagram, How I Approach Substack, and Where to Find My Stories
It’s been nearly four years since I gave up Instagram. You want to know my breaking point? One day while flipping through Stories, someone was talking passionately about gun control and then her next slide was about growing tomatoes. And the whiplash of gun control to tomatoes took me out. This, of course, wasn’t an… Continue reading
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When a Mother Prays
I’m a beggar and a mother, interchangeable. Spare these hearts of mine! Spare these hearts of mine! These hearts outside of me—spare them please! But I know it. Have lived it. They won’t escape pain, tragedies. By the tens or hundreds. But let them be. Let them breathe. Let them laugh and love, be healed, be held, be fearlessly… Continue reading
