readers – three good words

July 8, 2025July 8, 2025

The Book

What are you most excited about for the future?

*closes eyes*

This I speak into the Universe:

My book will be published well. It will be beautiful. It will be read. And readers will love it, enjoy it, and talk about it to others.

*burns incense* *chimes cymbal*

#writing

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025

The Women

Who is your favorite historical figure?

There are too many to count, but the following ladies Changed Things:

Mitochondrial Eve

Queen Hatshepsut

Queen Boudica

Murasaki Shikibu

Hildegard von Bingen

Maryam Al-Astrulabi

Eleanor of Acquitaine

Elizabeth I

Ada Lovelace

Jane Austen

Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley

Phillis Wheatley

Harriet Tubman

Florence Nightingale

Sojourner Truth

Susan B. Anthony

Josephine Baker

Virginia Woolf

Simone de Beauvoire

Toni Morrison

Wangari Maathai

Maya Angelou

I’m pretty sure a whole number of amazing historical women are missing here. Feel free to add more Women Who Changed Things.

#women #history

May 18, 2020June 16, 2020

necessity

strange, this
offering up words
yourself, in parts

May 17, 2020June 16, 2020

staying inspired

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015

arrival

light spilling
onto an improvised desk
glowing, dimming
like beams, streaming
lighthouse-bright
turning, spinning
slow with flashes
warning, beckoning
the tired ship
braving the sea.

to land safely
at dock and shore
is the finished script
of sentence-senses written
composed, structured
compr(om)ised to a
comprehensible whole
the passengers
crowded, waiting

words delivered
past the storms of doubt
now anchored at the docks
of paper, screens
safe havens
from darkness, white

inky bows tumbling down
gangways, printed
into the open arms
of readers
embracing, holding, kissing
the whole crowd
with joyous glee

and solemn satisfaction
that all are present
ready to be read
entirely
safe and whole
on the page, written
free.