This week we made our first college visit together. It was clarifying. The university put on a great program – including dorm food that was almost a replica of a pizza buffet he loves – and we waited all day to get to a reception for the program he really thought he wanted. The prestigious …
I’m happy to send you to The Sunlight Press to read two of my poems, “Fika on Marstrand Island” and “StarDate: August 27 – Moon and Aldebaran.” These poems have been in process since my MFA program, and submitting poems for publication is hard. This new online journal seems like such a nice fit for …
… and reads it to you that evening. And it makes you tear up it’s so beautiful and intricate and moving. What lesson do you take from this extraordinary moment? From knowing that a former Poet Laureate spent hours of his morning capturing the essence of a memory into lines of poetry and then …
Vala’s Pumpkin Patch is an Omaha tradition in September and October. Dan’s fab bosses always take a big group of us later, but when Macy’s Girl Scout troop announced $10 tickets, we just said yes. I’m trying to do that more often to these rare one-on-one opportunities with my kids. Jesse is a sophomore this …
Some days I feel restless. I click through emails, submission calls, Zillow photos, job posts, etc., subconsciously thinking the answer to any of my discomforts in life might be just on the other side of that click. It never is. When this sad, restless feeling is at it’s worst, I can’t even write. Or …
I published a poem this month! It’s the first one that formally drops me into the professional category because they paid me. You can read it for free online here by clicking on the cover image. The journal also has a Mini Contest for each issue – you can vote for your favorite in each category. For …
When I take a photo like this, I know Dan is going to lean over my shoulder as I’m posting it to Instagram and say something like, “She looks way too old in this pic.” And I’m probably going to smile and say, “I know.” I see it on your Facebook photos, too. If our …