IF NOT WORDS

    I started writing over a decade ago. Just started this blog one day and started writing. No game plan other than to write. I was tired of trying to drown my thoughts out with music. Tired of trying to explain how torturous my thoughts were to those close to me. Tired of feeling…

I FELT THE BLOSSOMS IN MY BONES

You guys, I just read an advanced copy of Nicole Lyons new book Blossom and Bone.  My mind has been swimming with inspiration all weekend.  If you don’t know who Nicole Lyons is then…. WHAT??? That honestly surprises me because I truly believe she is going to be the next big poet that our students…

AN INDIE CHRISTMAS

There is something about the Christmas season that makes us look around and take inventory of the people in our lives.  Many of us want to give something but have no idea what and then before we know it Christmas becomes something it was never meant to be.  It becomes a stressful puzzle of how…

BLOGGY DESTINATION SPOT

Today I am participating in Blog Tour Monday; so in a way my blog is an actual bloggy destination spot.  David Ellis at Too Full To Write asked me to be your tour guide today and before I finish this post I will be introducing another blogger who will continue Blog Tour Monday next week.…

HEMINGWAY’S POISON by Hughie Gibson

I recently read the poetry collection by Hughie Gibson.  Of all the poetry collections I have read I truly connected to the poems in this book, Hemingway’s Poison.  Every emotion is laid out in beautifully poetic verse and just waiting to give you a front row seat to his life.  I felt reborn inside each…